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Rebranding

An important art of politcians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 1, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories demagoguesTags Talleyrand

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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