You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.
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 LippmannCreative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
Walter LippmannMen have been barbarians much longer than they have been civilized. They are only precariously civilized, and within us there is the propensity, persistent as the force of gravity, to revert under stress and strain, under neglect or temptation, to our first natures.
Walter LippmannIt requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter LippmannAlmost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory - to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.
Walter Lippmann