All Walter Lippmann Quotes
- The Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things.… All
- Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the… Advance
- When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. Cease
- A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires… Acting
- What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we… Abandon
- The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the… Account
- No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way… Ancestor
- The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function… Age
- The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another… Alone
- When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists. Become Humanists
- In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have… Coercion
- If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may… All
- For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only… All
- If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe. Affair
- The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil… Any
- What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a… Always Prepared
- Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism. Acquisitive
- We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said… Cause
- Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and… Abandon
- A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a… Among