A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Walter LippmannOur 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.
Walter LippmannInevitably our opinions cover a bigger space, a longer reach of time, a greater number of things, than we can directly observe. They have, therefore, to be pieced together out of what others have reported and what we can imagine.
Walter LippmannSuccessful ... politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.
Walter LippmannAlmost 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.
Walter Lippmann