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
Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark. – Walter Lippmann
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann
In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. – Walter Lippmann