A nation that continues year after year to
spend more money on military defense than
on programs of social uplift is approaching
spiritual doom.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
" Why of course the people don't want
war. Why should some poor slob on a farm
want to risk his life in a war when the best
he can get out of it is to comeback to his
farm in one piece? Naturally the common people
don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in
England, nor for that matter in Germany.
That is understood. 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 tell
them they are being attacked, and denounce
the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works
the same in any country."
-- Hermann Göring (Adolf Hitler's designated
successor and Commander-in-Chief of the German
Luftwaffe during WWII)