In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.Walter Lippmann
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
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When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.
Walter Lippmann
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.
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Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
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