At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
Walter LippmannThe writers who have nothing to say, are the ones you can buy, the others have too high a price.
Walter LippmannTo create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.
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 Lippmann