Walter Lippmann Quotes & Quotations

Walter Lippmann Quotes

» Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory -- to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

» No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

» An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

» Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

» We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

» The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

» Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.

» 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.

» The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

» The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

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