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“The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation…

— Gavin John Adams

“preachers and modernist educators and discontented newspapermen and farm agitators—maybe they’ll worry at first, but they’ll get caught up in the web of propaganda,…

— Sinclair Lewis

“His chosen format was the pamphlet: quick to write, cheap to print, cheap to buy, a form constantly in dialogue with itself, as pamphleteer…

— Anna Beer

“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The…

— Howard Zinn

“The party started churning out more slogans, more propaganda. I couldn’t help but wonder where they even got all the paper for the posters—and…

— Masaji Ishikawa

“I squirmed in my hiding spot. Do something, people,” I urged. Say something . The silence dragged on. I imagined my first report to…

— Anne Greenwood Brown

“We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their congressmen, countries try to believe in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“Look at the tyranny of party-- at what is called party allegiance, party loyalty-- a snare invented by designing men for selfish purposes-- and…

— Mark Twain

“In politics [Francis Marion] was a moderate federalist; such as were many great revolutionary characters.”

— William Dobein James

“Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“At the official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous…

— Walter Isaacson