“Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.”
“Reason and truth have rarely prevailed against demagoguery when the audience is too ignorant to tell the difference.”

Abraham Bosse's frontispiece to the book Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes. Published in 1651, the book argues for an absolute monarch and a system in which people trade liberty for safety.