"[Governments are not averse to pushing propaganda to get political, social and financial support:] Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it..."

Author: General Douglas MacArthur

Notes: Quote from the book, 'American Caesar', published 1965.