Signs of the Times

[Walter Lippmann, in the New York Herald-Tribune, New York]

The greater need is for wisdom in government and in public life, a wisdom which is attainable only by a will to listen, ... to abate prejudice, ... to find common grounds of understanding, and a continual preference for an accurate, an objective, and disinterested view of affairs. ... No charity and no benevolence is complete which is not accompanied by an unremitting effort to learn the difficult art of self-government in a world where it is now possible for all men to be secure and well provided for.

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