Still Rings True

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate and wonderful is that of political zealots; of men, who being numbered, they know not how or why, in any of the parties that divide a state, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.

Samuel Johnson

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[John]

"But of course political slogans are not meant to be thought through. They are often an emotional substitute for thinking at all." Thomas Sowell