Walter Lippmann Quotes
The public must be put in its place...so that each of us can live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.
He was concerned about the possible “tyranny of the majority.”
Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974, Political Columnist, Quoted on Nancy Snow, Webpage, December 6, 2006
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Islamic modernists like Serageldin are many among the educated Muslims but their views are often drowned out by the violence and extremist statements of the fundamentalists.
Earl of Roscommon
1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth
Madison wrote this essay for publication in New York. That state, one of the largest and most important of the 13 colonies, was polarized about the proposed Constitution and Madison, Hamilton and John Jay produced this great set of essays to convince Americans to vote for ratification. Madison acknowledged that many people had complained about various aspects of the proposed constitution and in this essay he deals with the complaints about political parties—“factions”.
See Otis Singletary for a similar modern view
An excellent example of this occurred in the first decades of the 21st century. At the beginning if the century, the majority of Americans were clearly opposed to the idea of same-sex / gay marriage. By 2008, the population was evenly split, for and against. By 2014 the majority of Americans were clearly in favor of same-sex marriage and it had been legalized in more than a dozen states.
Walter Lippmann was an American writer, reporter and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his 1922 book Public Opinion.
