Walter Lippmann Quotes
Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.
Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.
In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.
So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.
The way in which the world is imagined determines at any particular moment what men will do.
His supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show where the dangers are.
The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.
The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult."The intolerable burden of thought.
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.
In a democracy the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
A man has honour if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient unprofitable or dangerous to do so.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
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.
