Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is… — 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
It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not… — 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
Liberty may be an uncomfortable blessing unless you know what to do with it. That is why so many freed slaves returned… — 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
