People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
Walter Lippmann

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann

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

When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann

When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann

There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
Walter Lippmann

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.
Walter Lippmann

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann