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Walter Lippmann

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Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.


— Walter Lippmann


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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.


— Walter Lippmann


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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.


— Walter Lippmann


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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.


— Walter Lippmann


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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.


— Walter Lippmann


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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.


— Walter Lippmann


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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.


— Walter Lippmann


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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.


— Walter Lippmann


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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.


— Walter Lippmann


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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.


— Walter Lippmann


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Did you know about Walter Lippmann?

" He compared the political savvy of an average man to a theater-goer walking into a play in the middle of the third act and leaving before the last curtain. Walter Lippmann (September 23 1889 – December 14 1974) was an American public intellectual writer reporter and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well. Similarities between the views of Lippmann and Gabriel Almond produced what became known as the Almond-Lippmann consensus which is based on three assumptions:
Public opinion is volatile shifting erratically in response to the most recent developments.

Lippmann was twice awarded (1958 and 1962) a Pulitzer Prize for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow". Walter Lippmann (September 23 1889 – December 14 1974) was an American public intellectual writer reporter and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War; he coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well.

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