The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.
Walter LippmannCreative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
Walter LippmannA 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 LippmannAges when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
Walter LippmannThe function of news is to signalize an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them in relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act.
Walter LippmannThe news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the task of selecting and ordering that news is one of the truly sacred and priestly offices in a democracy. For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
Walter Lippmann