Walter Lippmann

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly…

— Walter Lippmann

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

— Walter Lippmann

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell…

— Walter Lippmann

There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment…

— Walter Lippmann

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make…

— Walter Lippmann

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

— Walter Lippmann

The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.

— Walter Lippmann

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

— Walter Lippmann

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and…

— Walter Lippmann

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions…

— Walter Lippmann

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It…

— Walter Lippmann

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

“Thus the essence of freedom of opinion is not in mere toleration as such, but in the debate which toleration provides: it…

— Walter Lippmann

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to…

— Walter Lippmann

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in…

— Walter Lippmann

The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of…

— Walter Lippmann

“There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor…

— Walter Lippmann

“Marxism is not necessarily what Karl Marx wrote in Das Kapital, but whatever it is that all the warring sects believe, who…

— Walter Lippmann

Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned…

— Walter Lippmann

The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make…

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Walter Lippmann

Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of…

— Walter Lippmann

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the…

— Walter Lippmann

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.…

— Walter Lippmann

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic…

— Walter Lippmann

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between…

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Walter Lippmann

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.

— Walter Lippmann

Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking.

— Walter Lippmann

Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose thatwax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

— Walter Lippmann

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

— Walter Lippmann

The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.

— Walter Lippmann

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is…

— Walter Lippmann

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

— Walter Lippmann

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

— Walter Lippmann

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

— Walter Lippmann

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

— Walter Lippmann

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

— Walter Lippmann

“there are at least two distinct selves, the public and regal self, the private and human.”

— Walter Lippmann

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

— Walter Lippmann