“A false ideal of democracy can lead only to disillusionment and to meddlesome tyranny. The public must be put in its place, so that each of us [responsible men] may live free of the trampling and roar of the bewildered herd.”
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“Ours must be a leadership democracy administered by the intelligent minority who know how to regiment and guide the masses. Is this government by propaganda? Call it, if you prefer, government by education.”
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“Propaganda attains eminence as the one means of mass mobilization which is cheaper than violence, bribery or other possible control techniques.”
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“Landholders … ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The Senate, therefore, ought to be this body.”
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“Men in general in every society, who are wholly destitute of property, are also too little acquainted with public affairs to form a right judgment, and too dependent upon other men to have a will of their own“
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“the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction, of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
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“The United States crusade against Communism is a campaign against development … to suppress every popular movement that aims to overthrow ancient or modern tyranny & begin to find a way to overcome poverty & establish national self-respect.”
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“You start out in 1954 by saying, ‘Nigger, nigger, nigger.’ By 1968, you can’t say ‘nigger’. That hurts you … So you say stuff like ‘states’ rights’… and all of these things you’re talking about are totally economic things, and the byproduct of them is: Blacks get hurt.”
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“By getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. … Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
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“Our primary objective is to establish conditions which will bring home to the Cuban people the cost of Castro’s policies and of his Soviet orientation. … If the Cuban people are hungry, they will throw Castro out.”
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“Castro has provided … a highly exploitable example of revolutionary achievement and successful defiance of the United States.”
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“We should cease to talk about … unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The less we are hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.“
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“The employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of people … The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, … generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”
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“I don’t want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.“
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“The destruction was mutual. You know, we went to Vietnam without any desire to capture territory or to impose American will on other people. … And I don’t feel that we ought to apologize.“
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