Quotes from Walter Lippman

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society.

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.

Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.