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• A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

  Walter Lippmann

  Order, Weakness, Movement

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.503, Harvard University Press

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• Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern.

  Walter Lippmann

  Intelligent, Government, Criticism

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• What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Expression, People

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

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  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.454, Harvard University Press

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• Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mind, Fads, Superstitions

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

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  Eye, Men, Essence

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• People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue.

  Walter Lippmann

  Self, Expression, People

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• A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Men, Balance

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.43, Transaction Publishers

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• Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Criticism, Littles, Endure

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Reading, Results, Investigation

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• Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

  Walter Lippmann

  Art, Admitting, Lives Of Others

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.

  Walter Lippmann

  Stress, Men, Temptation

  Walter Lippmann (1959). “The Public Philosophy”

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• For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate.

  Walter Lippmann

  Law, Liberty, Overcoming

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.196, Harvard University Press

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• While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important.

  Walter Lippmann

  Listening, Important, May

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• We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Cynical, Humanity

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• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  Walter Lippmann

  Mistake, Errors, Degrees

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.157, Harvard University Press

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• We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.

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  Truth, Truth Is, Thousand

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• The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

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  Exercise, May, Live Free

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.145, Transaction Publishers

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• Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

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  Government, Enemy, Constitution

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• Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.

  Walter Lippmann

  Looks, Sap, Opponents

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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

  Walter Lippmann

  Success, Congratulations, Tired

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Hymns, Majority, Minorities

  Walter Lippmann (2003). “Men of Destiny (Ppr)”, p.56, Transaction Publishers

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• When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.

  Walter Lippmann

  Funny, Education, Funny Inspirational

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• It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.

  Walter Lippmann

  Crosses, Born, Skepticism

  Walter Lippmann (1932). “The Stakes of Diplomacy”, p.51, Transaction Publishers

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• Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Clever, Sacrifice

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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