Unless government can be assured that its chief officials are aloof from political ties, it cannot trust them; and all the considerations which create a “spoils system” will then come into play.
Laski argues that trust in government officials requires their detachment from political affiliations.
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Even Lincoln supported his generals in completely indefensible attacks on civilian rights.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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