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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

~Walter Lippmann

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

~Walter Lippmann

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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

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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.

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

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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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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

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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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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: September 23rd, 1889

Died: December 14th, 1974

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