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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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"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other." — Walter Lippmann
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"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 long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state." — Walter Lippmann
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"Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City." — Walter Lippmann
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"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters." — Walter Lippmann
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"Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion." — Walter Lippmann
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"True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective" — 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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"Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power" — Walter Lippmann
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"The senator might remember that the Evangelists had a more inspiring subject." — Walter Lippmann
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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. . ." — Walter Lippmann
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"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples" — Walter Lippmann
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"While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important" — Walter Lippmann
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"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 instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey." — Walter Lippmann
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"We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists." — Walter Lippmann
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American Journalist    Belief   

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"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party." — Walter Lippmann
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"The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price" — Walter Lippmann
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"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 endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation." — Walter Lippmann
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"There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral" — Walter Lippmann
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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
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