Walter LippmannThinkers

America is a country whose great social adventure is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

America is a country quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost, and we must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.

Consensus is thoughtlessness. Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

Criticism is gounded in the principle that it requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

A Fact is a thing such that the facts we see depend on where we are placed, and the habits of our eyes.

Fascism is totalitarianism like communism with both similar in their suppression of dissent, and in operating planned and directed economies.

An Ideal is an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Journalism is hold on the secular mind.

Journalism is the last refuge of the vaguely talented.

A Leader is one who leaves in other men the conviction and the will to carry on behind him.

A Leader is a person whose final test is that they leave behind them in others the conviction and the will to carry on.

A Myth 1s 2istinguishing mark is that truth and error, fact and fable, report and fantasy, are all on the same plane of credibility.

New York City is a city in which Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived.