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The newspaper is the bible of democracy

Walter Lippmann

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For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Liberty and the News, 1920

Was born on: 23.09.1889
About Author: American intellectual, writer, reporter, and political commentator
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Drawing sketches in the sand the sea will wash away

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.

Books and Things, The New Republic, August 7, 1915

Western nations and Asian people

The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are the find a tolerable basis of co-existence

Asia and the West, New York Herald Tribune, September 15, 1965

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