Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 284 of the original edition of Walter Lippmann’s sometimes deeply flawed but profoundly insightful and important 1937 book, The Good Society:

The conception of equal rights establishes a norm which fixes what ambitious politicians may promise, what individuals expect. But when officials are appointed to act as little tin gods over men, as Moses and Cæsar rolled into one, they are merely arbitrary and capricious – even if well-intentioned – human beings who have more authority than they know how to exercise.