Walter Lippmann was an influential American writer, journalist, and political commentator.
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“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.”
Walter Lippmann
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf”
“A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”
“The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on.”
“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.”
“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”
“Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.”
“A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.”
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.”
“Successful 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.”