“The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.” Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800-1859) [Lord Macaulay] 1st Baron Macaulay, British historian.
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“Security is mostly superstition.” Helen Keller, (1880-1968) Blind-Deaf Author. Source Reference Helen Keller Quote

“If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.” Gerald Gilder Source Reference Gerald Gilder Quote

“Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.” Ayn Rand, [Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum] (1905-1982) Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. Source Reference Ayn Rand Quote

“You can’t get rich in politics unless you’re a crook.” Harry S. Truman, (1884-1972), 33rd US President. Source: Attributed. Source Reference Harry S. Truman Quote

“The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth.” Bill Clinton, [William Jefferson Blythe III] (1946- ), 42nd US President. Source: speech at the University of Connecticut, Oct 15, 1997. Source Reference Bill Clinton Quote

“I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is Mass Psychology. …It’s importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda …Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class….

“Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men’s natural abilities as to restrain them.” Baruch Spinoza, (1632-1677).
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“The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.” Thomas Szasz, (1920-2012) Hungarian-American Professor of Psychiatry, Author, Libertarian.
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“For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of ‘brainwashing under freedom’ to which…

“Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” Joseph Paul Goebbels, (1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister. Source: Diary, 14 March 1943. Source Reference Joseph Paul Goebbels…

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.” Thomas Jefferson, (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source Reference Thomas Jefferson Quote