Walter Lippmann Quotes about Democracy

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The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Walter Lippmann

Democracy, Journalism, Crisis

1920 Liberty and the News,'Journalism and the Higher Law'.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Walter Lippmann

Democracy, Important, Public Opinion

A democracy which fails to concentrate authority in an emergency inevitably falls into such confusion that the ground is prepared for the rise of a dictator.

Walter Lippmann

Fall, Confusion, Democracy

Walter Lippmann (1936). “Authority in the crisis”

And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.

Walter Lippmann

Government, Democracy, Liberty

"The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

Walter Lippmann

Book, People, Democracy

Liberty and the News ch. 2 (1920)