Walter Lippmann Quotes
Beer would be a great help in fighting off the mental depression which afflicts great multitudes.
Lippmann was one of the most educated and respected men of his day. Yet he erroneously thought that alcohol would help depression. It actually is a depressant and should be avoided by all who are suffering from depression.
Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974, Political Columnist, Arguing for repeal of Prohibition
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As opposed to whisky, gin, and rum which he thought were intoxicating. He felt that working men would be satisfied if beer were legal and liquor repealed. During prohibition it is surprising to us today that so many figures actually believed that beer was not an intoxicating drink—much less the cause of most American intoxication as it would become by the 21st century.
She was a baroness—a member of the aristocracy who was a social reformer
Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 book Public Opinion.
