Walter Lippmann Quotes

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

Character is long-standing habit.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not.

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

I was a strict disciplinarian, perhaps too strict at times, but my God, without discipline what is life?

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

Discipline is creating the situation.

It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.

Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.