The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.
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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