Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
Walter LippmannThere is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.
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 LippmannWhat the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we must abandon the notion that democratic government can be the direct expression of the will of the people. We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilizations as a majority, people support or oppose the individuals who actually govern. We must say that the popular will does not direct continuously but that it intervenes occasionally.
Walter Lippmann