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Walter Lippmann
 
Date of birth: 23 September 1889
Date of death: 14 December 1974
Country Of Origin: America
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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
" A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. "

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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. "

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" Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character. "

Walter Lippmann
" Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. "

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" Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. "

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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
" 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. "

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

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" 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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" Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. "

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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. "

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

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

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

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