Lippmann

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    No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

    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 (1889–1974)