Quotes Walter Lippmann

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago t...

A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct t...

Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophe...

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party....

He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct thou...

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is des...

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs ...

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence a...

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius....

It is perfectly true that that government is best which gove...

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothin...

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what ...

Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of be...

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority w...

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots wi...

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion t...

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than an...

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It gro...

People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger o...

Private property was the original source of freedom. It stil...

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instrument...

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability ove...

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must ...

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in o...

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power i...