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Walter Lippmann
- 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 {view}
- When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.... Walter Lippmann {view}
- In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.... Walter Lippmann {view}
- The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.... Walter Lippmann {view}
- Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.... Walter Lippmann {view}
- Men who are "orthodox" when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives... Walter Lippmann {view}
- It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men... Walter Lippmann {view}
- The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . .... Walter Lippmann {view}
- Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men... Walter Lippmann {view}