Walter Lippmann Quotes About Constitution

Quotes about: Constitution

• Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Enemy, Constitution

• The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

  Walter Lippmann

  Power, Principles, Firsts

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

• The invisible government [bosses] is malign. But the evil doesn't come from the fact that it plays horse with the Newtonian theory of the constitution. What is dangerous about it is that we do not see it, cannot use it, and are compelled to submit to it.

  Walter Lippmann

  Horse, Government, Play

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