"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all. Such extremism comes easily to men who have doped themselves with delusions of their own unblemished virtue and the rascality of others."
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Academics from the United StatesPresidential Medal of Freedom recipientsPeople from Los AngelesMembers of the Cabinet of the United States
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"A Nation Is Never Finished", ABA Journal (November 1967), Volume 53, page 1011
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John W. Gardner
John William Gardner (8 October 1912 β 16 February 2002) was President of the Carnegie Corporation and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under President Lyndon Johnson.
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