All Walter Lippmann Quotes
- The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes. Depend
- Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence. Business
- It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Audience
- There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they… Arguing
- The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. Behind
- In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. Administer
- Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in… Change
- The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Behind
- The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. Always Learns
- Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Balloon
- The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the… Afford
- Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about… All
- The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment… Appeals
- It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. Best
- Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. Aged
- Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. Assurance
- Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. Brain
- The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race. Anti War
- Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He… Age
- Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is… Fail
- Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail. Attractive
- A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of… Ago
- Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Desirable
- Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls… All
- The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. Civilized