317 Quotes by Walter Lippmann

Successful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.

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.

Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.

There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral.

Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

It is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.