Bewilderment Quote by Walter Lippmann

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

— Walter Lippmann

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to…

— Walter Lippmann