People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — 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
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which… — 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
