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From Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.…
- No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way…
- If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may…
- An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains…
- The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do…
- Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.
- The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution.…
- You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one…
- Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to…
- In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it…
- The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For…
- 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…
- The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the…
- What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
- The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
- There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to…
- There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil - remain detached from the great
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