Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
More Quotes by Walter Lippmann
Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
When all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.