Walter Lippmann Quotes

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.

The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and e...

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dicti...

...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of eac...

There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on mot...

It is doubtful whether a supreme master of style could pack all the elements of truth that complete ...

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that ...

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main busi...

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, pe...

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forc...

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth...

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace...

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men...

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and se...

In a democracy the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained becau...

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new socia...

A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable ...

The modern skeptical world has been taught for some 200 years a conception of human nature in which ...

His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority...

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the eff...

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contr...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are poss...

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are poss...

If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carr...

While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes th...

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space be...

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to ...