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
The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief, which is at the heart of all popular religion, that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark. – Walter Lippmann