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Letter "W" » Walter Lippmann Quotes
«We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.»
«It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men»
«The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Adventure,
America and Americans
| Keywords:
absorption, conquest, peoples, the Wilderness, wilderness
«Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
«The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. 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.»
«The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price»
«In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief»
«True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective»
«Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal.»
«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.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
leave behind, successfully, The Genius
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