Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.
Walter LippmannGreat men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
Walter LippmannMost men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
Walter LippmannThere can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
Walter LippmannSocial movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
Walter LippmannThe principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.
Walter Lippmann