You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated. – Walter Lippmann
Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. – Walter Lippmann
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. – Walter Lippmann
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes. – Doris Kearns Goodwin