Walter Lippmann

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public…

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

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers…

The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that…

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will…

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in…

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men…

Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues…

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally…

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine…

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf…

Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the…

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common…

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much…