The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being - which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs - where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.
Walter LippmannOnly the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.
Walter LippmannIf all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.
Walter LippmannWhat a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Walter Lippmann