Tuesday, July 29, 2003

More Quotes

"When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”—Plato

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”—H. L. Mencken

“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear… kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor… with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it...”—General Douglas MacArthur (1957)