“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.”

— Adolf Hitler

Attributed to Hitler, without source, in a 1992 book of quotations https://books.google.com/books?id=FwICBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT96&dq=%22the+people+they+administer+don%27t+think%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwic_p2MxqfLAhUBE2MKHTC-CgQQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20people%20they%20administer%20don't%20think%22&f=false. <br class="br">Disputed

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