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Quote by Walter Lippmann
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legi

The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract. – Walter Lippmann

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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

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America
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. – Walter Lippmann

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Freedom
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann

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Technology
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The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. – James Madison

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It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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A Constitution should be short and obscure. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. – Joseph Joubert

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