If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve. - Randal Marlin

When you give false information you tend to restrict the freedom of choice to others.

Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such as revenge, power, booty, and spoils, to maintain the necessary level of support.