"Why, of course, the people don't want war. Why would some poor
slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that
he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece.
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia
nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. But, after all, it 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 ... 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 pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing
the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
-Hermann Goering
Excerpted from Nuremberg Diary, by G. M. Gilbert, an intelligence
officer who had free access to the prisoners at Nuremberg Jail.
This quote is from a conversation he had with Goering.
FurPaw
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense
a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To reply, unleash the dog.
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