Archive for category: Walter Lippmann

"In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable." Walter Lippmann

"There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies" Walter Lippmann

"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