Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imi >>

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a >>

Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of so >>

Quotations about Precedents

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. >>

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once >>

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before >>

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

Lippmann, Walter