Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

When philosophers try to be politicians they generally cease to be phi >>

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruc >>

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force >>

Quotations about Conservatives

All reactionaries are paper tigers. >>

To be conservative requires no brains whatsoever. Cabbages, cows and c >>

I do not know which makes a man more conservative -- to know nothing b >>

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created. The average conservative is a slave to the most incidental and trivial part of his forefathers glory -- to the archaic formula which happened to express their genius or the eighteenth-century contrivance by which for a time it was served.

Lippmann, Walter