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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

~Walter Lippmann

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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

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

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

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

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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.

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

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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.

~Walter Lippmann

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 23rd, 1889

Died: December 14th, 1974

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