Walter Lippmann

"Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail." Walter Lippmann

"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated." Walter Lippmann

"Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings." Walter Lippmann

"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully." Walter Lippmann

"He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so." Walter Lippmann

"Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it." Walter Lippmann

"Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West." Walter Lippmann

"Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men." Walter Lippmann

"A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant." Walter Lippmann

"Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization." Walter Lippmann

"The decay of decency in the modern age, the rebellion against law and good faith, the treatment of human beings as things, as the mere instruments of power and ambition, is without a doubt the consequence of the decay of the belief in man as something more than an animal animated by highly conditioned reflexes and chemical reactions. For, unless man is something more than that, he has no rights that anyone is bound to respect, and there are no limitations upon his conduct which he is bound to obey." Walter Lippmann

"To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state." Walter Lippmann

"Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern." Walter Lippmann

"Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other." Walter Lippmann