Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of… — 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
There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own certainty. — 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
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In places where men are used to differences they inevitably become tolerant. — 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
The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The function of news is to signalize an event, the functionoftruth istobring to lightthehiddenfacts, toset them into relationwith each other, and make… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Men have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the… — 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
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and… — 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
You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The size of a man's income has considerable effect on his access to the world beyond his neighborhood. With money he can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. — 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
