Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter LippmannI demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
Walter LippmannModern men are afraid of the past. It is a record of human achievement, but its other face is human defeat.
Walter LippmannThe self-evident truth which makes men invincible is that inalienably they are inviolable persons.
Walter LippmannWe are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.
Walter LippmannA country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.
Walter Lippmann