10:42 am | 25 March 2003 | it works the same

"Naturally the common people don't want war...But, after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship, or parliament or a communist dictatorship. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

-Hermann Goering (1893-1946), Nazi Reichsmarschall
said at the Nuremberg Trials, 4/18/46. From Nuremberg Diary by Gustave Gilbert.