• No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

    Walter Lippmann: No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
    Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.385, Harvard University Press