Life is an irreversible process and for that reason its future can never be a repetition of the past.
Walter LippmannWhereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of toleration.
Walter LippmannMen can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.
Walter LippmannLiberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.
Walter Lippmann