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Walter Lippmann: “Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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Walter Lippmann: “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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Walter Lippmann: “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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Walter Lippmann: “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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Walter Lippmann: “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. (1931)
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Walter Lippmann: “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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Walter Lippmann: “The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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Walter Lippmann: “Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
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