It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. – Walter Lippmann
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
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. – Walter Lippmann