The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to… — 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
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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
“Political science has still to account for such facts as two nations attacking one another, each convinced that is is acting in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific… — 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
