“Do the pamphlets follow the mood of the people, or do the pamphlets encourage certain opinions among the masses?”

“The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas . . . Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction.”

“[The pamphlet] was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.”

“Sure, I’ll take your pamphlet. I need to fill up my trashcan anyway.”

“There is no literature anymore, there are just single books that arrive in bookstores, just as letters, newspapers, advertising pamphlets arrive in mailboxes.”

“Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.”