On that note, here are a few quotes.
"...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."
Guess who? No, none of the Founding Fathers. Not Orwell.
"Fascism is capitalism in decay."
- Vladimir Lenin
Is our state not slowly decaying before our eyes?
“If tyranny and oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.”
- James Madison
Well damn, that sounds familiar
“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
- Euripides, Orestes
Older than dirt, still true.
“The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people.”
- James Madison
On the subject of tyranny, the world is well-experienced in its rise to power, its fall, and its intricacies. We would do well to learn from history, lest we be doomed to repeat it.