Walter Lippmann
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Walter Lippmann (September 23, 1889–December 14, 1974), was an influential United States writer, journalist, and political commentator.
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- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
- 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 facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.
- A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.
- In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and ….superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to ….get what it thinks it likes.
- So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
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