The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are… — 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
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
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
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more… — 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
It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Newspapers necessarilyand inevitably reflect, and therefore, in greater or lesser measure, intensify, the defective organization of public opinion. — 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
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
