The greatest fault of some critics is that they become personal, possibly because it is so easy and so attractive to do so. The change in our educational system may bring about an improvement, but it may also be detrimental. It is certain that without a division of duties the world could not go on. It is of much more importance that people should have food than that they should have pianos.
Grammarians make a distinction between telling an untruth and lying.
To tell an untruth is to tell a thing that is false but which you believe to be true. A major effect of political party organization in the United States has been a tremendous simplification of alternatives at the time of voting. Where no party organization exists, there is typically a large number of candidates, and the dispersion of votes for these candidates is wide. When parties dominate an election, characteristically the number of candidates is drastically limited, and the votes are highly concentrated. The U.S. Constitution provides that when no candidate receives a majority of the electoral votes the House elects the president from the five candidates who receive the largest vote in the electoral college.