The predominant teachings of this age are that there are no limits to man's capacity to govern others and that, therefore, no limitations ought to be imposed upon government. The older faith, born of long ages of suffering under man's dominion over man, was that the exercise of unlimited power by men with limited minds and self-regarding prejudices is soon oppressive, reactionary, and corrupt. The older faith taught that the very condition of progress was the limitation of power to the capacity and the virtue of rulers.
Walter LippmannThe justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
Walter LippmannBut what is propaganda, if not the effort to alter the picture to which men respond, to substitute one social pattern for another?
Walter LippmannCreative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.
Walter LippmannWhere mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.
Walter Lippmann