We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
Walter LippmannSo far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.
Walter LippmannWe say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
Walter LippmannThe central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
Walter LippmannThe devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.
Walter LippmannWhat the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.
Walter Lippmann