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… is from page 40 of Reinhold Niebuhr’s 1944 volume, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness [2]; (this quotation appears on page 1 of Christopher Achen’s and Larry Bartels’s important 2016 book, Democracy for Realists [3]):
The democratic idealists of practically all schools of thought have managed to remain remarkably oblivious to obvious facts.