A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
Walter LippmannTrue 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 LippmannIdeals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Walter LippmannYou 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