Walter Lippmann

Men who are...

Men who are...

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their...

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The principles of...

The principles of...

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially...

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Private property was...

Private property was...

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

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Social movements are...

Social movements are...

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is...

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Success makes men...

Success makes men...

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing...

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No amount of...

No amount of...

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate...

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The private citizen,...

The private citizen,...

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these...

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The best servants...

The best servants...

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the...

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Successful democratic politicians...

Successful democratic politicians...

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate,...

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The disesteem into...

The disesteem into...

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one...

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Robinson Crusoe, the...

Robinson Crusoe, the...

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.

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The tendency of...

The tendency of...

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and...

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The chief element...

The chief element...

The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and...

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The emotion of...

The emotion of...

The emotion of love, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining; it endures only when the lovers love many...

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The final test...

The final test...

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The...

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The great social...

The great social...

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin...

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The man who...

The man who...

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him...

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There is nothing...

There is nothing...

There is nothing so bad that it cannot masquerade as moral.

Source: A Preface to...

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The first principle...

The first principle...

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under...

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