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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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" The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. "

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" In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. "

" It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. "

" He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. "

Walter Lippmann

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" The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. "

Walter Lippmann

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples. "

" 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. "

" Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. "

" 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. "

" Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. "

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

" There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. "

" The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. "

" Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. "