Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
Walter LippmannMost men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Walter LippmannOnly the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
Walter LippmannThe opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.
Walter LippmannHappiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.
Walter LippmannThe principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
Walter Lippmann