The private citizen today has come to feel rather like a deaf spectator in the back row, who ought to keep his… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
“Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
