While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently. — 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
The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even… — 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
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between… — 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
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
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
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority… — 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
Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the… — 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 systems of stereotypes may be the core of our personal tradition, the defenses of our position in society. They are an… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
