The use of the weapon of falsehood is more necessary in a country where military conscription is not the law of the land than in countries where the manhood of the nation is automatically drafted into the Army, Navy, or Air Service. The public can be worked up emotionally by sham ideals. A sort of collective hysteria spreads and rises until finally it gets the better of sober people and reputable newspapers.

People must never be allowed to become despondent; so victories must be exaggerated and defeats, if not concealed, at any rate minimized, and the stimulus of i…

A Government which has decided on embarking on the hazardous and terrible enterprise of war must at the outset present a one-sided case in justification of its…

Lying, as we all know, does not take place only in war-time. Man, it has been said, is not 'a veridical animal,' but his habit of lying is not nearly so extrao…

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology.... Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern me…

But for the media to name their coverage of the 2003 invasion of Iraq the same as what the Pentagon calls it-everyday seeing 'Operation Iraqi Freedom'-you have…