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01Undated

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 / quote

02Undated

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 / quote

03Undated

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.

Walter Lippmann / quote

04Undated

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.

Walter Lippmann / quote

05Undated

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

Walter Lippmann / quote

06Undated

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

Walter Lippmann / quote

07Undated

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.

Walter Lippmann / quote

08Undated

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

Walter Lippmann / quote

09Undated

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Walter Lippmann / quote