Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Source: From his 1913 book A Preface to Morals, quoted by Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Atlantic-Little, Brown 80
-- Walter Lippmann, (Sep 23 1889-1974), US journalist, editor, author; He won Pulitzers 1958, 1962, for his syndicated column, Today and Tomorrow.