Quote by Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

• The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

• Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining.

• Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.

• Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

• Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.