75 Quotations by Walter Lippmann
- 21. Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

- 22. It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that ...

- 23. Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of w ...

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

- 25. Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors ha ...

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

- 27. Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the eco ...

- 28. No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate ...

- 29. Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically dete ...

- 30. Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify ...

- 31. Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new socia ...

- 32. People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.

- 33. Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

- 34. Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesman ...

- 35. Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the ef ...

- 36. Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the ef ...

- 37. Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as ...

- 38. Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as ...

- 39. The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master' ...

- 40. The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master' ...

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