317 Quotes by Walter Lippmann

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

Even God has been defended with nonsense.

The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.