Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.
Walter LippmannPoliticians tend to live "in character" and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism that describes him.
Walter LippmannThe disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
Walter LippmannNo mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.
Walter Lippmann