Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. — 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
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. — 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
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
When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. — 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
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. — 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
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
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this… — 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
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
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
Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions… — 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
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
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If somebody can create an absolute system of beliefs and rules of conduct that will guide a business man at eleven o'clock… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Successful democratic 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
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
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 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
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own… — 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
