Walter Lippmann Quote

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. That is why young men die in battle for their countrys sake and why old men plant trees they will never sit under.


Essays in the Public Philosophy (ed. Transaction Publishers, 1955) - ISBN: 9781412838641


Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air,...

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air,...

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air,...

Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in Burkes words, a man to his country with ties which though light as air,...