Quotes by Lippmann, Walter

If all power is in the people, if there is no higher law than their wi >>

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particula >>

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak li >>

Quotations about Politicians and Politics

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The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the seat of government. It is an ability to penetrate from the naïve self-interest of each group to its permanent and real interest. Statesmanship consists in giving the people not what they want but what they will learn to want.

Lippmann, Walter