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Very Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best…
- When everyone thinks alike, no one thinks very much.
- It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted,…
- Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.
- Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
- 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…
- The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very…
- Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man…
- The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to…
- People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things…
- 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…
- Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
- Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Where all think alike, no one thinks very much
- I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can…
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