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Quotes from Liberty and the News — Walter Lippmann

1889–1974 United States

← All quotes by Walter Lippmann

5 quotes

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

Liberty and the News (1920)

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the information by which to detect lies.

Liberty and the News (1920)

[T]he newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.

Liberty and the News (1920)

[T]he present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Liberty and the News (1920)

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Liberty and the News (1920)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Lippmann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.