IP: Two very applicable quotes given the past several months

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

"[I]t is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is 
always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, 
or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. 
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the 
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being 
attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing 
the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering

"In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences of 
opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of 
reason; but these differences when permitted, as in this happy country, to 
purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds 
overspreading our land transiently and leaving our horizon more bright and 
serene."
--Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waring, 1801. Memorial Edition vol. 10, p. 235

Obtained from http://www.jpfo.org/unpopularspeech.htm

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