The best protection for the people is not necessarily to believe everything people tell them.
More Quotes from Demosthenes:
What we wish, that we readily believe.Demosthenes
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Demosthenes
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
Demosthenes
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
Demosthenes
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: People QuotesIt was in high school that I first became interested in acting. We put on lots of plays.
Blythe Danner
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
Richard Curtis
I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.
George C. Wallace