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

"We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change." Walter Lippmann

"The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged." Walter Lippmann

"It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men." Walter Lippmann

"A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done." Walter Lippmann

"The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority." Walter Lippmann

"Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions." 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