Walter Lippmann

"The function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act." Walter Lippmann

"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 has to seek insight rather than to preach." Walter Lippmann

"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 have yielded to the perennial temptation." Walter Lippmann

"People who are tremendously concerned about their identification, their individuality, their self-expression, or their sense of humor, always seem to be missing the very things they pursue." Walter Lippmann

"We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say." Walter Lippmann

"We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace." Walter Lippmann

"Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate." Walter Lippmann

"It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage." Walter Lippmann

"The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority." Walter Lippmann

"We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception." Walter Lippmann

"The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal." Walter Lippmann

"You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers." Walter Lippmann

"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart." Walter Lippmann

"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents." Walter Lippmann