Saturday, June 4, 2016

Quote of the Day (Walter Lippmann, on Opposition in a Democracy)



"In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable." —Columnist Walter Lippmann (1889-1974), “The Indispensable Opposition,” Atlantic Monthly, August 1939, from The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy, edited by Clinton Rossiter and James Lare (1982)

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