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From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-03-02:

"The hawks on the program were critical of the publication on the grounds that it undermined confidence in government, but this, of course, is precisely why the publication seems to me so happy an event. It is a very healthy thing for a democracy to be made to realize that government is not infallible and very often consists of exceedingly limited, presumptuous, mistaken and even stupid men. The great lesson, I concluded by saying, is: Don't trust your leaders---until they earn and justify that trust by telling the people the truth." -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., from a July 13, 1971 journal entry recalling a televised discussion he had participated in regarding the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Selections from his journals were published in 2007.

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)