An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.
Walter LippmannBut what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
Walter LippmannBetween ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.
Walter Lippmann