• 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
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator 1889-1974
  

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1. intelligence
2. imposition
3. evidence
4. opinion
5. perhaps
6. nature

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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. by : Walter Lippmann

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