“To do this the constitutional administration of our government must be sustained, and I beg of you not to allow your minds or your hearts to be diverted from the support of all necessary measures for that purpose, by any miserable picayune arguments addressed to your pockets, or inflammatory appeals made to your passions or your prejudices.”

— Abraham Lincoln

1860s, Speeches to Ohio Regiments (1864), Speech to One Hundred Forty-eighth Ohio Regiment (1864)

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16th President of the United States 1809–1865

James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician

The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)

“If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.”

T.D. Jakes (1957) American bishop

“But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy?”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

interview on WBAI, January 1992 http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/interviews/9201-propaganda.html.
Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994
Context: The point of public relations slogans like "Support Our Troops" is that they don't mean anything... that's the whole point of good propaganda. You want to create a slogan that nobody is going to be against and I suppose everybody will be for, because nobody knows what it means, because it doesn't mean anything. But its crucial value is that it diverts your attention from a question that does mean something, do you support our policy? And that's the one you're not allowed to talk about.