Eugene Volokh, over at the Volokh Conspiracy has a excellent post about current American political and constitutional discourse, using this quote as a jumping off point.

But for some reason this culture has a real problem saying people are wrong, but thinks it's easy to call people hypocrites. Worse, our culture thinks it's worse to be a hypocrite than to be wrong. Its good. You should read it.
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 1:54 PM