They Who Have Reasoned Ignorantly, Or Who Have Aimed At Effecting Their Personal Ends By Flattering The Popular Feeling, Have Boldly Affirmed That 'one Man Is As Good As Another;' A Maxim That Is True In Neither Nature, Revealed Morals, Nor Political Theory. - SearchQuotes

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They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

James F Cooper

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