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Good Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs…
- 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…
- Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and…
- A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.
- Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
- The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.
- 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 decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere…
- 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…
- The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
- The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
- The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment…
- 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…
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