Walter Lippmann - The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion,...

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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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Der Privatbürger, der von Partisanenaufrufen zur Abgabe seiner öffentlichen Meinung bedrängt wird, wird vielleicht bald feststellen, dass diese Aufforderungen kein Kompliment für seine Intelligenz sind, sondern eine Auferlegung seines guten Wesens und eine Beleidigung seines Bewußtseins.

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