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Walter Lippmann Quotes

«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.»
Author: Walter Lippmann (Journalist) | Keywords: put down
«There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.»
«No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.»
«Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.»
«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.»
«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.»
«The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to get something or to avoid something.»
«Nobody has worked harder at inactivity with such a force of character, with such unremitting attention to detail, with such conscientious devotion to the task»
«There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral»
«The lesson of the tremendous days through which we are passing is that men cannot live upon the achievements of their forefathers, but must themselves renew them - We cannot escape the elementary facts of life - that for a people there is nothing for»

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