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The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

~Walter Lippmann

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

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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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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

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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.

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When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

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

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The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 23rd, 1889

Died: December 14th, 1974

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