It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
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 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
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 10 Share Now -
