If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
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Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
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Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses read more
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human
immaturity.
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.
Let it alone. Let it pass by.
[Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
Let it alone. Let it pass by.
[Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Party honesty is party expediency.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
