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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority. – Walter Lippmann

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In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents. – Walter Lippmann

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Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. – Walter Lippmann

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. – Walter Lippmann

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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton

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