A little disrespect is not a bad thing. Skepticism is essential to chasten what Walt Whitman called "the never-ending audacity of elected persons." But, carried too far, ridicule of the people we choose to govern us may undermine self government itself.
Quotes by Arthur Meier Schlesinger
Arthur Meier Schlesinger
(1917 - )
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When we talk about the future being like the past, we naturally imply that the future is going to be like the past in accordance with the simplest expression capable of representing the past.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger
(1917 - )
Source: Induction and Parsimony, American Philosophical Quarterly, 8, 179-85 (1971), p 181.
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