Below are the single initial of the participants and the exact words they spoke in history.
G: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
S: Of course those who cast the votes decide nothing and only those that count the votes will decide everything.
H: How fortunate for us that men do not think, and it also gives me a very special pleasure to see how unaware the people around us are of what is happening to them.
P: One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Great outburst of laughter, when it dies down H begin to speak again
H: He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. An interruption comes from the back and a clear voice emerges:
A: "If ever a time should come, when vain, corrupt and aspiring men such as you shall possess the highest seats in government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
H: H continues as if no one is there. "All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."
G: murmurs his approval.
G: "Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play. Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose. It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion. A man at the back of the rooms roars in indignation.
L: I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country; corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in High Places will follow, and the Money Power of the Country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the People, until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. Another man joins him in common chorus.
C: A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.
Loud applause.
What I hope to illustrate here is that nothing changes from history that is not already here. Only awareness of history can help to effect real change. There is no one in this discussion and meeting of minds that you feel you could not identify or know that is either now living or dead. It may surprise you that all of these people are the latter and even more, who they were.
The following contributors to this meeting are identified as follows from their single initial.
