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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."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Success
"What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Society
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Science
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Music
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Men
"Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Men
"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."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Intelligence
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Government
"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Government
"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
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Walter Lippmann
Topic(s):
Freedom
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