"Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism."
— Fanaticism

January 1, 1970

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Walter Lippmann, statement of 1913, quoted in American Patriotism in Prose and Verse, 1775-1918 (1919) edited by Jesse Madison Gathany