A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must… — 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
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 principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to… — 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
A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption… — 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
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
