The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
Walter LippmannThe man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.
Walter LippmannThe effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.
Walter LippmannThe only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.
Walter LippmannThere can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.
Walter LippmannIt has been the fashion to speak of the conflict between human rights and property rights, and from this it has come to be widely believed that the use of private property is tainted with evil and should not be espoused by rational and civilized men... the only dependable foundation of personal liberty is the personal economic security of private property. The Good Society.
Walter Lippmann