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
“His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.” — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to… — 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
Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is… — 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
