Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 3
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 1
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
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 American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
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 American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. Walter Lippmann American Journalist More Walter Lippmann Quotes 0