"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."
"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."
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.