Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is not the idea as such which the censor attacks, whether it be heresy or radicalism or obscenity. He attacks the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is nothing disastrous in the temporary nature of our ideas. They are always that. But there may very easily be a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Unless our ideas are questioned, they become part of the furniture of eternity. — 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
