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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.

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
Education, Needs, Cost
Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.432, Harvard University Press

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

Walter Lippmann
Done, Reason, Irrational
Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society on a full use of the earth's resources; they did not aim to use the whole nature of man; they did not intend him to think out the full expression of his desires. Democracy is a turning point upon those ideals in a pursuit, at first unconsciously, of the richest life that men can devise for themselves.

Walter Lippmann
Men, Thinking, Expression

All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.

Walter Lippmann
Men, Perfect, Desire
Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.161, Transaction Publishers

Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions that neither stunt the imagination nor let it run to uncontrolled fantasy, there you have the family that modern men are seeking to create.

Walter Lippmann
Running, Children, Men
Walter Lippmann, Julien C. Sprott (2015). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.143, University of Wisconsin Pres

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

Walter Lippmann
Party, Power, Should Have
Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

Walter Lippmann
Running, Law, Genius
Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

The news is not a mirror of social conditions, but the report of an aspect that has obtruded itself.

Walter Lippmann
Mirrors, News, Social
1922 Public Opinion, ch.23.

Free institutions are not the property of any majority. They do not confer upon majorities unlimited powers. The rights of the majority are limited rights. They are limited not only by the constitutional guarantees but by the moral principle implied in those guarantees. That principle is that men may not use the facilities of liberty to impair them. No man may invoke a right in order to destroy it.

Walter Lippmann
Men, Rights, Order
Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.57, Harvard University Press

Usually it is the stereotyped shape assumed by an event at an obvious place that uncovers the run of the news.