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
I think we need to ask serious questions about how we engage militarily, when we engage militarily, and on what basis we engage militarily. What kind of intelligence do we have to justify a military engagement? – Albert Wynn
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it. – John Stuart Mill