Hermann Goering:
Why of course the people don't want war...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...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 to
tell them they are being attacked, and denouce the pacifists for lack
of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
Hermann Goering, at his Nuremberg Trial
Nuremberg Diary, Gustave Gilbert, Farrar, Straus & Co., 1947
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