Walter Lippmann

"The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity." 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

"The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants." Walter Lippmann

"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism." Walter Lippmann

"When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists." Walter Lippmann

"Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole." Walter Lippmann

"Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government." Walter Lippmann

"Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation." Walter Lippmann

"Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others." Walter Lippmann