A 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 LippmannThe whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.
Walter LippmannIt is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
Walter LippmannIt is so much easier to talk of poverty than to think of the poor, to argue the rights of capital than to see its results. Pretty soon we come to think of the theories and abstract ideas as things in themselves.
Walter Lippmann