317 Quotes by Walter Lippmann

It is in time of peace that the value of life is fixed. The test of war reveals it.

Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty.

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.