In a free society the state does not administer …– 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.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master’s ear. It is the court fool, not the
There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they
The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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