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"An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
Category:
Alliances
"Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Character
"This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
Category:
Democracy
"In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when it strikes, it strikes with incredible emphasis. Those are the rare occasions when a national will emerges from the scattered, specialized, or indifferent blocs of voters who ordinarily elect the politicians. Those are for good or evil the great occasions in a nation's history."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
Category:
Difficulties
"The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
Category:
Moralists
"When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Philosophers and Philosophy
"The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
Category:
Precedents
"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
Author:
Walter Lippmann
Category:
Risk
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