The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing the voters most want is to be told what to want.


The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy (ed. Harvard University Press, 1982) - ISBN: 9780674267756

Walter Lippmann Quotes

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing...

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing...

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing...

The effort to calculate exactly what the voters want at each particular moment leaves out of account the fact that when they are troubled the thing...