What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power o...r influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our children shall behold his fame, The kindly-earnest, brave, forseeing man,... Sagacious, patient, dreading praise, not blame, New birth of our new soil, the first American.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Public instability ... gives ... [an] unreasonable advantage ... to the sagacious, the enterprising, and the moneyed few over the ...industrious and uninformed mass of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »