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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Walter Lippmann
Horse, Business, Genius

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

Walter Lippmann
Purpose, Genius, Firsts
Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Walter Lippmann
Average, Genius, Machines

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Walter Lippmann
Political, Genius, Answers
Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.500, Harvard University Press

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

Walter Lippmann
Running, Law, Genius
Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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