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Walter Lippmann
You cannot endow...
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant...
You don't have...
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into...
You don't have...
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into...
You must not...
You must not complicate your government beyond the capacity of its electorate to understand...
What we call...
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always...
While the right...
While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes that right...
When all think...
When all think alike, then no one is thinking.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
The thinker dies,...
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are...
The study of...
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the...
The opposition is...
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his...
A long life...
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist...
Art enlarges experience...
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
Source: In...
A country survives...
A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it...
Almost always tradition...
Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created....
A man has...
A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do...
A useful definition...
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human...
Between ourselves and...
Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our...
Ages when custom...
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must...
An alliance is...
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United...
A man who...
A man who has humility will have acquired in the last reaches of his beliefs the saving doubt of his own...