Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a political campaign. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him... — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The press does not tell us what to think, it tells us what to think about. — 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
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
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. — 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
I do not despise genius-indeed, I wish I had a basketful of it. But yet, after a great deal of experience and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
