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• Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have, therefore, to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine.

  Walter Lippmann

  Numbers, Space, Together

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock in the morning, a boy trying to select a career, a woman in an unhappy love affair--well then, surely no pragmatist will object. He insists only that philosophy shall come down to earth and be tried out there.

  Walter Lippmann

  Morning, Philosophy, Boys

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.145, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of facts; it is the acquiring of a different sense of life, a different kind of intuition about the nature of things.

  Walter Lippmann

  Maturity, Discovery, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.154, Harvard University Press

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• If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

  Walter Lippmann

  War, Russia, Europe

  "The Miami Herald", (p. 6A), December 18, 1947.

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• An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

  Walter Lippmann

  Offering, Stronger, Links

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• We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

  Walter Lippmann

  Education, Needs, Cost

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.432, Harvard University Press

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• It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

  Walter Lippmann

  Done, Reason, Irrational

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

  Walter Lippmann

  Public Opinion, Citizens, Comeback

  Walter Lippmann (2007). “Public Opinion”, p.368, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.

  Walter Lippmann

  Running, Events, News

  1922 Public Opinion, ch.23.

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• The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.

  Walter Lippmann

  Moving, Light, Diversity

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.77, Harvard University Press

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• 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 scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Depressing, Mean

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Even God has been defended with nonsense.

  Walter Lippmann

  Nonsense, Has Beens

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Party, Power, Should Have

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Horse, Government, Play

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• We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

  Walter Lippmann

  Knowledge, Knowing, Understanding

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.135, Harvard University Press

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• Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Rights, Order

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.57, Harvard University Press

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• A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

  Walter Lippmann

  Sleep, Men, Useless

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

  Walter Lippmann

  Records, Machines, Tradition

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• Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.

  Walter Lippmann

  Past, Men, Records

  Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.163, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Doe, World

  "Public Opinion". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1922.

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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

  Age, Taught, Insight

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.482, Harvard University Press

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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

  Progress, Use, Movement

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.

  Walter Lippmann

  Country, Strong, Men

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

  Walter Lippmann

  Blood, Belief, Intolerance

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.182, Harvard University Press

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• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  Walter Lippmann

  Business, Simple, People

  "Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)" by Ronald Steel, Transaction Publishers, (p. 277), 1980.

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