Creative Quotations from . . .
Walter Lippmann
(1889-1974) born on
Sep 23
US "journalist, editor, author". "He won Pulitzers 1958, 1962, for his syndicated column, "Today and Tomorrow.""
 
   
F
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important."

R
"When all think alike, then no one is thinking."
A
"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal."
N
"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
K
"The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Reader's Digest," 1 Jun 1971."
R: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
A: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
N: ""Public Opinion," ch. 17, 1922."
K: ""The Indispensable Opposition," in Atlantic Monthly, 1939."



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