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

Other quotes by 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

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Politics
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism. – Walter Lippmann

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Success
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. – Walter Lippmann

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

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Constitution

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. – George Bernard Shaw

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Constitution

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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Constitution

A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Constitution

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