A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that… — 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
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The unexamined life, said Socrates, is unfit to be lived by man. This is the virtue of liberty, and the ground on… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The unions are the first feeble effort to conquer the industrial jungle for democratic life. They may not succeed, but if they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The life of a savage is beset by glowering terrors: from birth to death he lives in an animated world; where the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Without order or authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Our life is managed from behind the scenes: we are actors in dramas that we cannot interpret. Of almost no decisive event… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. — 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
