There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
Walter Lippmann
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- Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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