Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it lov >>

In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather t >>

Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derange >>

Quotations about Democracy

The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these li >>

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic. >>

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told. >>

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.

Lippmann, Walter