Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. >>

The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force >>

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappea >>

Quotations about Opposition

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sens >>

I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role. >>

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It r >>

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.

Lippmann, Walter