Walter Lippmann Quotes

You can't build a society without law.

In morals as in politics anarchy is not for the weak.

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

There can be no liberty without the law.

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

Society cannot exist without law. Law is the bond of society: that which makes it, that which preserves it and keeps it together. It is, in fact, the essence of civil society.

Nanny states are interested in social order. Daddy states are interested in public order.

The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society.

The nation’s priority is stability.

Institutions are what allow us to have continuity in civilizations.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

Obviously I prefer freedom, but I know, and I think all history has told us, that freedom cannot flow from anarchy and disorder.

There can be no prosperity without law and order.

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of death.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.

Where there's no law, there's no bread.

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

Great part of that order which reigns among mankind is not the effect of government. It has its origin in the principles of society and the natural constitution of man. It existed prior to government, and would exist if the formality of government was abolished. The mutual dependence and reciprocal interest which man has upon man, and all the parts of civilised community upon each other, create that great chain of connection which holds it together.

If civil society has nobody who protects the law, then what kind of society is that?