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Great Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have…
- Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
- A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated…
- 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…
- I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just…
- 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 great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
- When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The…
- 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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