Quotes by : Walter Lippmann

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary....

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between....

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry....

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority....

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort....

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry....

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

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

The modern skeptical world has been taught for some 200 years a conception of human nature in which the....