In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable. — 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
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
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
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
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
The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism. — 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
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
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
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 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
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
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. — 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
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
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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
