He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What a shame to waste those great shots on the practice tee. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained -- then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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, that truth shall prevail over error. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The emotion of love, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining it endures only when the lovers love many things together, and not merely each other. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage it is useless to expect solutions in a political compaign. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. . . - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something. - Walter Lippmann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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