The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
Walter LippmannOur conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
Walter LippmannThe thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
Walter LippmannYou and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one of the real masters of the statistical situation. The other is the man who organizes the results.
Walter Lippmann