Note 123 — Chapter II · OPPOSITION TO THE WAR WITH GERMANY
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“It seems to me perfectly clearly established, that no official yet born on this earth is wise enough or generous enough to separate good ideas from bad ideas, good beliefs from bad beliefs, and that the utmost that anybody can ask of a government, is that if it is efficient it should detect and run down criminal acts; that beyond reaching words which are the direct and immediate incitement to criminal acts, no government dare go.”—Walter Lippmann, Bull. League of Free Nations Assn., Mar., 1920.