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Friedrich Nietzsche·1886

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Alexis de Tocqueville·1840

When an opinion has taken root in a democracy and established itself in the minds of the majority, it afterward persists by itself, needing no effort to maintain it since no one attacks it. Those who at first rejected it as false come in the end to adopt it as accepted, and even those who still at the bottom of their hearts oppose it keep their views to themselves, taking great care to avoid a dangerous and futile contest.

Edmund Burke·1784

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.