Walter Lippmann

"When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life." Walter Lippmann

"Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles." Walter Lippmann

"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting." Walter Lippmann

"While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right important." Walter Lippmann

"Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious." Walter Lippmann

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

"There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil." Walter Lippmann

"A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator." Walter Lippmann

"For in the absence of debate unrestricted utterance leads to the degradation of opinion. By a kind of Greshams law the more rational is overcome by the less rational, and the opinions that will prevail will be those which are held most ardently by those with the most passionate will. For that reason the freedom to speak can never be maintained merely by objecting to interference with the liberty of the press, of printing, of broadcasting, of the screen. It can be maintained only by promoting debate." Walter Lippmann

"It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor." Walter Lippmann

"Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life." Walter Lippmann

"The mass of the reading public is not interested in learning and assimilating the results of accurate investigation." Walter Lippmann

"Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice." Walter Lippmann

"A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker." Walter Lippmann