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Walter Lippmann

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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.


— Walter Lippmann


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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.


— Walter Lippmann


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


— Walter Lippmann


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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.


— Walter Lippmann


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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.


— Walter Lippmann


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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.


— Walter Lippmann


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


— Walter Lippmann


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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.


— Walter Lippmann


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


— Walter Lippmann


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


— Walter Lippmann


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Did you know about Walter Lippmann?

" He compared the political savvy of an average man to a theater-goer walking into a play in the middle of the third act and leaving before the last curtain. Walter Lippmann (September 23 1889 – December 14 1974) was an American public intellectual writer reporter and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well. Similarities between the views of Lippmann and Gabriel Almond produced what became known as the Almond-Lippmann consensus which is based on three assumptions:
Public opinion is volatile shifting erratically in response to the most recent developments.

Lippmann was twice awarded (1958 and 1962) a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow". Walter Lippmann (September 23 1889 – December 14 1974) was an American public intellectual writer reporter and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well.

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