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Only Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say,…
- In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
- 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.…
- Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the…
- The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another…
- For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only…
- Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
- To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love.
- The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event…
- When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and…
- True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective…
- Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as…
- It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can…
- For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome…
- 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…
- Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society…
- It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses…
- Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the…
- 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…
- The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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