A modern dictator with the resources of science at his disposal can easily lead the public on from day to day, destroying all persistency of thought and aim, so that memory is blurred by the multiplicity of daily news and judgment baffled by its perversion.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Vol 1 (1956–58)

On the spread of the news of the Murder of the Princes in the Tower. Sometimes cited to The Second World War (1948-53)