The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not exper…

Walter Lippmann
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The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities. ✨ Walter Lippmann (2012). Public Opinion, p.7, Courier Corporation
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Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1914). A Preface to Politics
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try bi … ▶
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. ✨ Walter Lippmann (2011). The Phantom Public, p.48, Transaction Publishers
There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil. ✨ Walter Lippmann (1995). Liberty and the News, p.15, Transaction Publishers

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