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Here lay the political genius ...

Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to be answered, even though he himself did not always find the full answer.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Free institutions are not the ...

Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

A free press is not a privileg...

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in which it can keep itself informed about what the people of the country are thinking and doing and wanting.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

The news of the days it reache...

The 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 336 quotes

But what is propaganda, if not...

But what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

We must protect the right of o...

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

The American's conviction that...

The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Without some form of censorshi...

Without some form of censorship, propaganda in the strict sense of the word is impossible. In order to conduct propaganda there must be some barrier between the public and the event.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

A really good diplomat does no...

A really good diplomat does not go in for victories, even when he wins them.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

A democracy which fails to con...

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

There can be no higher law in ...

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Very few established instituti...

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

To create a minimum standard o...

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

It is often very illuminating....

It is often very illuminating...to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion?

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Great men, even during their l...

Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

We are told about the world be...

We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

In a place where everybody thi...

In a place where everybody thinks alike, nobody thinks very much.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

A regime, an established order...

A regime, an established order, is rarely overthrown by a revolutionary movement; usually a regime collapses of its own weakness and corruption and then a revolutionary movement enters among the ruins and takes over the powers that have become vacant.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

We must remember that in time ...

We must remember that in time of war what is said on the enemy's side of the front is always propaganda and what is said on our side of the front is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Before you can begin to think ...

Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

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