Many people will develop a sort of selective morality. They will have one set of ethics- the ones they were taught as children and have been used to all their lives- for judging themselves and their friends. They will have another, and a much lower one, for the President of the United States.
Margaret Halsey, writing in the New Republic in 1958, imagining a future in which then-Vice President Richard Nixon was president. Quoted in Anthony Summers, The Arrogance of Power.













