"Among the calamities of war may be jointly numbered the diminution of the love of truth, by the falsehoods which interest dictates and credulity encourages."
— Credulity

January 1, 1970

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Samuel Johnson in: War, Media, and Propaganda: A Global Perspective, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 14 September 2004, p. 60