Walter Lippmann

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. ↗

— 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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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. ↗

— 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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