When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be philosophers. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
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 Lippmann Read Quote
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems. Walter Lippmann Read Quote
