Routineer

Examples

• Taft was the perfect routineer trying to run government as automatically as possible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Yet just because a man is in opposition to Senator Lodge there is no guarantee that he has freed himself from the routineer's habit of mind. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was nothing but the insolence of the routineer that forced Gifford Pinchot out of the Forest Service. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The routineer with his taboo does not see this, so he attempts the impossible task of obliterating the impulse. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The routineer in a panic turns to the taboo. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The type of statesman we must oppose to the routineer is one who regards all social organization as an instrument. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At this point the whole routineer scheme of things collapses, there is a period of convulsion and C?sarean births, and men weary of excitement sink back into a newer routine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The routineer is, of course, the first to decry every radical proposal as against human nature. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Political inventors are to-day largely unconscious of their purpose, and, so, defenceless against the distraction of their routineer enemies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.

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