"We believe that the reduction of the citizen to an object
of propaganda, private and public, is one of the greatest dangers to democracy.
"A prevalent notion is that the great mass of the people cannot understand and
cannot form an independent judgment upon any matter; they cannot be educated,
in the sense of developing their intellectual powers, but they can be
bamboozled.
"The reiteration of slogans, the distortion of the news, the great
storm of propaganda, that beats upon the citizen twenty-four hours a day all
his life long mean either that democracy must fall a prey to the loudest and
most persistent propagandists or that the people must save themselves by
strengthening their minds so that they can appraise the issues for
themselves."