The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves,… — 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
