You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.
Walter LippmannAlmost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.
Walter LippmannThe self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.
Walter LippmannThe chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the na?ve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.
Walter LippmannWe know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.
Walter LippmannI generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.
Walter Lippmann