The balancing of present wants against the future is really the central problem of ethics. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The smashing of idols is in itself such a preoccupation that it is almost impossible for the iconoclast to look clearly into… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they… — 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
“Chief Factors Limiting Access to Facts: 1)Artificial censorship 2)Limitations of social contact 3)Comparatively meager time in a day for paying attention to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. — 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
Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. — 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
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
“There are portions of the sovereign people who spend most of their spare time and spare money on motoring and comparing motor… — 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
