The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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
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
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into… — 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
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between… — 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
Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are… — 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
“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.” — 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in… — 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 function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons. — 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
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel… — 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
Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its… — 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
