Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. >>

In really hard times the rules of the game are altered. The inchoate m >>

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a >>

Quotations about Alliances

Alliance. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have >>

Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wise >>

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, on >>

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

Lippmann, Walter