The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority. — 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
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
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 ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Politicians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes potent, and when… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. — 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
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which… — 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 invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory… — 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
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
“Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. — 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 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
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