American - Journalist | September 23, 1889 - December 14, 1974
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
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The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
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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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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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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.
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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.
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When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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