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Upon Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- 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…
- 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…
- A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
- The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent…
- The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make…
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