"In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill… we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one."

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Therefore, it is the most qualified who are to administer the state, the philosopher kings, who are to enforce a myth upon the people, and keep from them the lie that will one day hopefully be forgotten by the kings themselves.