You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. – Walter Lippmann
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann