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Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889 – December 14, 1974) was an American public intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold Warhe coined the term stereotype in the modern psychological meaning as well.

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.
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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.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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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.
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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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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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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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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.
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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.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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