Walter Lippmann Quotes & Sayings

45 most famous Walter Lippmann quotes and sayings (journalist). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”

“When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.”

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

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

“Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.”

“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”

“In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.”

“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.”

“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.”