75 Quotations by Walter Lippmann
- 1. A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the r ...
- 2. A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space be ...
- 3. A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main busi ...
- 4. Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is re ...
- 5. Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ...
- 6. An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like ...
- 7. Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the in ...
- 8. Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections ...
- 9. Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does rega ...
- 10. Corrupt, stupid, grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, s ...
- 11. Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they ...
- 12. Football strategy does not originate in a scrimmage: it is useless to expect solutions in a politica ...
- 13. He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconceivable, unprofitable, or ...
- 14. I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only t ...
- 15. If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their v ...
- 16. Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
- 17. In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men ...
- 18. In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men ...
- 19. In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not suf ...
- 20. In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate mass begins to stir. It becomes ...
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