Walter Lippmann

Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate.

— Walter Lippmann

The news and the truth are not the same thing.

— Walter Lippmann

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

— Walter Lippmann

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.

— Walter Lippmann

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

— Walter Lippmann

In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant.

— Walter Lippmann

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

— Walter Lippmann

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

— Walter Lippmann

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

— Walter Lippmann

The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to…

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Walter Lippmann

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big…

— Walter Lippmann

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

— Walter Lippmann

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

— Walter Lippmann

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

— Walter Lippmann

Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign.

— Walter Lippmann

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose…

— Walter Lippmann

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving…

— Walter Lippmann

The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they…

— Walter Lippmann

The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into…

— Walter Lippmann

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe.…

— Walter Lippmann

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those…

— Walter Lippmann

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest…

— Walter Lippmann

“Those whom we love and admire most are the men and women whose consciousness is peopled thickly with persons rather than with…

— Walter Lippmann

The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons…

— Walter Lippmann

“Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct a propaganda there…

— Walter Lippmann

The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no…

— Walter Lippmann

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

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves,…

— Walter Lippmann

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to…

— Walter Lippmann

“For the real environment is altogether too big, too complex, and too fleeting for direct acquaintance. We are not equipped to deal…

— Walter Lippmann

“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of…

— Walter Lippmann

“The systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an…

— Walter Lippmann

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

— Walter Lippmann

In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief

— Walter Lippmann

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

— Walter Lippmann

“When all think alike, no one thinks very much”

— Walter Lippmann

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

— Walter Lippmann

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

— Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

— Walter Lippmann