Need some help please finding Goebbel's quote on how easy it is to

[grannylib]

get people to back a war; something about convincing them they are under threat and all that...
I can't seem to find it!
Thanks!

[flowomo]

1. nah.... never mind.... that wasn't what you wanted

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[grannylib]

4. *lol* thanks anyway!

[arcane1]

2. I think it's actually Goering

"Naturally the common people don’t want war. But after all, it is the
leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it’s always a
simple matter to drag people along whether it is a democracy or a
fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship.
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of
the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and
for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every
country.” Hermann Goering

[grannylib]

5. That's it, thanks much! Wrong Nazi, sorry!

[Spider Jerusalem]

3. Goering, not Goebbels...

"Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
-- Hermann Goering, at Nuremberg, 1945

[grannylib]

6. Thanks, that's it. I had my Nazis confused.

[Goathead]

7. The quote you are looking for is from Hermann Goering

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."

-Hermann Goering

I believe he said it at the Nuremberg Trials

[Ignoramus]

10. Nuermberg diaries, not Nuremberg trial

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.htm

[medeak]

8. I've been looking for Goebbel's quote as well

heard it on NPR the other day.. and it was re how easy it was to use propaganda and convince people to go to war.

Not the quotes above.

Anyone have quote would be most appreciative...

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. Was it this, perhaps?

"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." - Josef Goebbels

[flowomo]

11. one of these?

http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/joseph_paul_goebbels/