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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.
Written by Walter Lippmann
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.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Written by Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Written by Walter Lippmann
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
Written by Walter Lippmann
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.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Written by Walter Lippmann
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Written by Walter Lippmann
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Written by Walter Lippmann
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Written by Walter Lippmann
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
Written by Walter Lippmann
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Written by Walter Lippmann
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
Written by Walter Lippmann
We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Written by Walter Lippmann
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.
Written by Walter Lippmann
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Written by Walter Lippmann
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.
Written by Walter Lippmann
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Written by Walter Lippmann
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Written by Walter Lippmann
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Written by Walter Lippmann
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Written by Walter Lippmann
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.
Written by Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Written by Walter Lippmann
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.
Written by Walter Lippmann

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