Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what...#Walter Lippmann
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns...#Walter Lippmann
The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but...#Walter Lippmann
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when...#Walter Lippmann
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in...#Walter Lippmann
Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues;...#Walter Lippmann
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and...#Walter Lippmann
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all...#Walter Lippmann
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life,...#Walter Lippmann
