It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippmann Wisdom
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 Business
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. -Walter Lippmann Business
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. -Walter Lippmann Music
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. -Walter Lippmann Society
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. -Walter Lippmann Intelligence
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 Change
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 Government
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 Success
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. -Walter Lippmann Science
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute. -Walter Lippmann Truth
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 Society
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state. -Walter Lippmann Space
