Walter Lippmann

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes,…

— Walter Lippmann

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.

— Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

— Walter Lippmann

The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly…

— Walter Lippmann

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

— Walter Lippmann

“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in…

— Walter Lippmann

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.

— Walter Lippmann

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices…

— Walter Lippmann

“If you ignore what a man desires, and you deny the very source of his power.”

— Walter Lippmann

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to…

— Walter Lippmann

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

— Walter Lippmann

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from…

— Walter Lippmann

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

— Walter Lippmann

Inevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe.…

— Walter Lippmann

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves,…

— Walter Lippmann

We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -…

— Walter Lippmann

The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of…

— Walter Lippmann

“The habit of thinking about progress as "development" has meant that many aspects of the environment were simply neglected. With the stereotype…

— Walter Lippmann

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative…

— Walter Lippmann

“The democratic system cannot be operated without effective opposition. For, in making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than…

— Walter Lippmann

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

— Walter Lippmann

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own…

— Walter Lippmann

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always…

— Walter Lippmann

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which…

— Walter Lippmann

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated…

— Walter Lippmann