A Tuesday Quote

Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) wrote an early, influential book on the nature of public opnion and its political uses. This quote provides one of his insights on that topic:

"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."