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Walter Lippmann has 184 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
• The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
• Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
• Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
• You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into…
• Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.
• In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

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