by Walter Lippmann

If the voter cannot grasp the details of the problems of the day because he has not the time, the interest or the knowledge, he will not have a better opinion because he is asked to express his opinion more often.

It is much safer to keep in step with the parade of opinion than to keep up with the swifter movement of events.

If we could not take nearly everything for granted, we should spend our lives in utter triviality.

Where all the facts are out of sight a true report and a plausible error read alike, sound alike, feel alike.

On all but a few matters for short stretches in our lives, the utmost independence that we can exercise is to multiply the authorities to whom we give a friendly hearing.

A philosophy which fails to insist upon the limitation of desire must make men forever unhappy

serenity of soul requires some better organization than man can attain by pursuing his casual ambitions, satisfying his hungers, and for the rest accepting destiny as an idiots tale in which one dumb sensation succeeds another to no known end.