Walter Lippmann Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honor, Duty, Dangerous

  Walter Lippmann (1960). “A Preface to Morals”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

• You don't have to preach honesty to men with a creative purpose. A genuine craftsman will not adulterate this product. The reason isn't because duty says he shouldn't, but because passion says he couldn't.

  Walter Lippmann

  Honesty, Passion, Men

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

• To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

  Walter Lippmann

  Fall, States, Standards

  Walter Lippmann, William Edward Leuchtenburg (1961). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”, p.141, Univ of Wisconsin Press

• Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness, disorganization, self-indulgence, and moral indifference to the destruction of freedom itself. The tragic ordeal through which the Western world is passing was prepared in the long period of easy liberty during which men forgot the elementary truths of human existence. They forgot that their freedom was achieved by heroic sacrifice.

  Walter Lippmann

  Life, Clever, Sacrifice

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

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