American - Journalist | September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
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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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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.
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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.
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Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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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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