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

"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

"There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs." Walter Lippmann

"Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city." Walter Lippmann

"Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President." Walter Lippmann

"The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary." 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

"A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function." Walter Lippmann