Lippmann

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    In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)