Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-12-04 Dec 4, 2008History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.~ Ambrose BierceThe Rockefeller Foundation and the Council on Foreign Relations … intend to prevent, if they can, a repetition of what they call in the vernacular “the debunking journalistic campaign following World War I.” Translated into precise English, this means that the Foundation and the Council do not want journalists or any other persons to examine too closely and criticize too freely the official propaganda and official statements relative to “our basic aims and activities” during World War II. In short, they hope that, among other things, the policies and measures of Franklin D. Roosevelt will escape in the coming years the critical analysis, evaluation and exposition that befell the policies and measures of Woodrow Wilson and the Entente Allies after World War I.~ Charles Austin BeardWe believe the picture painters of the mass media are artfully creating landscapes for us which deliberately hide the real picture. In this book we will show you how to discover the "hidden picture" in the landscapes presented to us daily through newspapers, radio and television.~ Gary Allen Dec 3, 2008Corruption is no stranger to Washington; it is a famous resident.~ Walter GoodmanThere exists a shadowy government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.~ Daniel K. InouyeYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.~ Harry S. Truman Dec 2, 2008Perhaps the most obvious political effect of controlled news is the advantage it gives powerful people in getting their issues on the political agenda and defining those issues in ways likely to influence their resolution.~ W. Lance BennettThe smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.~ Noam ChomskyNo one has ever succeeded in keeping nations at war except by lies.~ Salvador de Madariaga Dec 1, 2008The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.~ Frederic BastiatWe shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.~ Friedrich August von HayekThe most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.~ Justice Robert H. Jackson Nov 28, 2008All government, in its essence, is organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.~ H. L. MenckenWe can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.~ Justice Louis D. BrandeisGovernment's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.~ Ronald Reagan Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print