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The effort to calculate exactl...

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

No mariner ever enters upon a ...

No mariner ever enters upon a more uncharted sea than does the average human being born in the 20th century. Our ancestors know their way from birth through eternity; we are puzzled about the day after tomorrow.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

The press is no substitute for...

The press is no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of darkness into vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions. It is only when they work by a steady light of their own, that the press, when it is turned upon them, reveals a situation intelligible enough for a popular decision.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

When men can no longer be thei...

When men can no longer be theists, they must, if they are civilized, become humanists.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

In making the great experiment...

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

If all power is in the people,...

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their will, and if by counting their votes, their will may be ascertained - then the people may entrust all their power to anyone, and the power of the pretender and the usurper is then legitimate. It is not to be challenged since it came originally from the sovereign people.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

For the newspaper is in all li...

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

If the estimate of the House C...

If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

The principle of majority rule...

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil war in which the opposing armies are counted and the victory is awarded to the larger before any blood is shed. Except in the sacred tests of democracy and in the incantations of the orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

What we call a democratic soci...

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Certainly he is not of the gen...

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

There is but one bond of peace...

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 336 quotes

When everyone thinks the same,...

When everyone thinks the same, nobody is thinking.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

A free press is not a privileg...

A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Lovers who have nothing to do ...

Lovers who have nothing to do but love each other are not really to be envied; love and nothing else very soon is nothing else.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

You cannot endow even the best...

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Ignore what a man desires and ...

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Leaders are the custodians of ...

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

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The common interests very larg...

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

Though it is disguised by the ...

Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.

Walter Lippmann 336 quotes

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