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• It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

  Walter Lippmann

  Use, Easier, Great Power

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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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• It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Tests, Life Is

  Walter Lippmann “Force and Ideas: The Early Writings”, Transaction Publishers

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• When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Trying, Philosopher, Politician

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

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• Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

  Walter Lippmann

  Debate, Speak, Promoting

  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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• It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Law, Desire

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

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• But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Effort, Patterns

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Prejudice, Life Is

  Walter Lippmann (2017). “Public Persons”, p.101, Routledge

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• In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Differences, Used

  Walter Lippmann (1932). “The Stakes of Diplomacy”, p.52, Transaction Publishers

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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

  Men, Soul, Purpose

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• To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.

  Walter Lippmann

  Love, Forgiveness, Understanding

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface To Morals”, p.328, Transaction Publishers

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• To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Monasteries, Retiring

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

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• Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Successful, Insecure, Men

  "Essays in the Public Philosophy". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1955.

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• And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Democracy, Liberty

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

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

  Walter Lippmann

  New York, Men, Self

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• Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, People, Office

  N.Y. Herald Tribune, 8 Jan. 1932

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• Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

  Walter Lippmann

  Leader, Custodians, Belief

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• The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Age, Problem

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.483, Harvard University Press

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• Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Thoughtful, Talking

  Walter Lippmann (1938). “The good society”, p.44, Transaction Publishers

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• The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Sky, Earth

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.531, Harvard University Press

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• A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

  Walter Lippmann

  Media, Privilege, Urban

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• What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Errors, Myth

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

  Walter Lippmann

  Intelligent, Soul, Bent

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.137, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

  Walter Lippmann

  Eye, Facts, Habit

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

  Walter Lippmann

  Real, Character, Personality

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

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