In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. — 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
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. — 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
