Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate. Walter Lippmann More Quotes by Walter Lippmann More Quotes From Walter Lippmann The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged. Walter Lippmann issues politician men The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. Walter Lippmann effort men way The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it. Walter Lippmann horse government play Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government. Walter Lippmann government guarantees The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. Walter Lippmann ignorant tyrants democracy The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants. Walter Lippmann lost-ones devil angel Nobody has yet found a way of bombing that can prevent foot soldiers from walking. Walter Lippmann military soldier feet Men are mortal, but ideas are immortal. Walter Lippmann immortal men ideas The writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price. Walter Lippmann But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another? Walter Lippmann patterns effort men We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. Walter Lippmann civil-rights opponents speak The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life. Walter Lippmann eye essence men True opinions can prevail only if the facts to which they refer are known; if they are not known, false ideas are just as effective as true ones, if not a little more effective. Walter Lippmann justice littles ideas The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky. Walter Lippmann giving-up men thinking You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results. Walter Lippmann real house men Franklin D. Roosevelt is no crusader. He is no tribune of the people. He is no enemy of entrenched privilege. He is a pleasant man who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President. Walter Lippmann office men people Modern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat. Walter Lippmann records men past The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence. Walter Lippmann asian age drama Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under. Walter Lippmann strong men country Successful democratic 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. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people. Walter Lippmann insecure successful men
