Lippmann

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    Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)

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

    This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement—that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it—that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
    —Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)