75 Quotations by Walter Lippmann
- 41. The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate th ...
- 42. The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of h ...
- 43. The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an a ...
- 44. The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account ...
- 45. The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to ...
- 46. The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contr ...
- 47. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace ...
- 48. The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption ...
- 49. The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption ...
- 50. The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routine ...
- 51. The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learn ...
- 52. The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into con ...
- 53. The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restles ...
- 54. The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. I ...
- 55. The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be prov ...
- 56. The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, pe ...
- 57. The senator might remember that the Evangelists had a more inspiring subject.
- 58. The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themsel ...
- 59. The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating in ...
- 60. The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its ...
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