Elpidio Valdes

If the people only knew how the world truly worked, there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning!

Slaves No More

History, Revolutions

Hello and welcome to Revolutions. ... So last time, we watched the Revolution of 1848 hit Austria. As you probably noticed, after word of the revolution in France reached Vienna, events in Vienna mirrored the…

Walter Lippman

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.

Edward Bernays

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.

Harold Lasswell

Propaganda attains eminence as the one means of mass mobilization which is cheaper than violence, bribery or other possible control techniques.

James Madison

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.

John Adams

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.

Thomas Jefferson

The inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction, of all ages, sexes and conditions.

Joan Robinson

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.

Lee Atwater

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.

John Ehrlichman

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.

Dwight Eisenhower

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.

Allen Dulles

Castro has provided … a highly exploitable example of revolutionary achievement and successful defiance of the United States.

George Kennan

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.

Adam Smith

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.

Paul Weyrich

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.

Jimmy Carter

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.