Somehow or other, for reasons often necessarily obscure, as the result of domination or compromise or a logroll, there emerge from these political bodies commands, which set armies in motion or make peace, conscript life, tax, exile, imprison, protect property or confiscate it, encourage one kind of enterprise and discourage another, facilitate immigration or obstruct it, improve communication or censor it, establish schools, build navies, proclaim "policies," and "destiny," raise economic barriers, make property or unmake it, bring one people under the rule of another, or favor one class as against another.
"Public Opinion"
Walter Lippmann
A government run literally on this principle would, if history is any guide, be either a perpetual logroll, or a chaos of warring shops.
"Public Opinion"
Walter Lippmann