No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
We must abandon the notion that the people govern. Instead, we must adopt the theory that, by their occasional mobilisations as a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The democratic system cannot be operated without effective opposition. For, in making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The national unity of a free people depends upon a sufficiently even balance of political power to make it impracticable for the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
“Since position and contact play so big a part in determining what can be seen, heard, read, and experienced, as well as what it… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history.… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
![“These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs or that they are making progress towards such an ideal. I think [democracy] is a false ideal.” quote by Walter Lippmann](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/908/walter-lippmann-1083_democracy_these-various-remedies-eugenic-education_1303423.jpg)
