I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away.


The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy (ed. Harvard University Press, 1982) - ISBN: 9780674267756


I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are...

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are...

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are...

I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are...