The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.
Walter LippmannWhereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
Walter LippmannThe radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
Walter LippmannBetween ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Walter LippmannWhere mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.
Walter Lippmann