All Walter Lippmann Quotes
- In the blood of the martyrs to intolerance are the seeds of unbelief Belief
- Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave… Almost Always
- Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. Best
- There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs. Bond
- A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated… Big
- Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else. Each
- You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. Best
- Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on… Arrested
- Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends. Been
- A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its… Afford
- The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event… Anyone
- There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil. Devil
- A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them. Diplomat
- We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as… Cost
- An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains… Adding
- When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and… Begin
- The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do… Automaton
- True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective… Effective
- Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. Cities
- Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. Cannot Govern
- No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Amount
- The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that… Bewildered
- Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier… Barrier
- The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very… Able
- We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. Civil Rights