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Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
The effort to...
The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that...
Let a human...
Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will...
Our conscience is...
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means...
Politicians tend to...
Politicians tend to live in character and many a public figure has come to imitate the journalism which describes...
Men who are...
Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their...
The principles of...
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially...
Private property was...
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
Social movements are...
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is...
Success makes men...
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing...
No amount of...
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate...
The private citizen,...
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these...
The best servants...
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the...
Successful democratic politicians...
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate,...
The disesteem into...
The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one...
Robinson Crusoe, the...
Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York City.
The tendency of...
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and...
The chief element...
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and...
The emotion of...
The emotion of love, in spite of the romantics, is not self-sustaining; it endures only when the lovers love many...
The final test...
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The...