Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sampl >>

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather t >>

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it lov >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

The law often permits what honor prohibits. >>

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perp >>

Rulers were made to be broken. >>

A country survives its legislation. That truth should not comfort the conservative nor depress the radical. For it means that public policy can enlarge its scope and increase its audacity, can try big experiments without trembling too much over the result. This nation could enter upon the most radical experiments and could afford to fail in them.

Lippmann, Walter