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" The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. "

Walter Lippmann

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" 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. "

" Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. "

" 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. "

" Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. "

" No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. "

" When all men think alike, no one thinks very much. "

" Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. "

" The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. "

" 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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" When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. "

" 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. "

" The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. "

" Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. "

" What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. "

" Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. "

" Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. "

" Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. "

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