Quote by Walter Lippmann
What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain pur

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. – Walter Lippmann

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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. – Walter Lippmann

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The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart. – Walter Lippmann

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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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I cant imagine what it is like to be raised in a society where their only statues that exist are to you and your father. – Madeleine Albright

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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers. – Mignon McLaughlin

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