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Walter Lippmann
1889 – 1974 • American • Journalist
45
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Collected Meditations
Showing 45 quotesThe 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
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
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.— Walter Lippmann
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.— Walter Lippmann
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.— Walter Lippmann
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
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.— Walter Lippmann
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.— Walter Lippmann
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.— Walter Lippmann
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.— Walter Lippmann
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.— Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.— Walter Lippmann
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
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.— Walter Lippmann
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.— Walter Lippmann