[God is good]

I can't recall the exact quote or person or anything, but I do know that one of our founding fathers also mentioned the principle that an aggressive minority tends to rule the placid and apathetic majority. I don't think anyone considered the original Americans the majority against the world's greatest power England.

[Don Joe]

I can't recall the exact quote or person or anything, but I do know that one of our founding fathers also mentioned the principle that an aggressive minority tends to rule the placid and apathetic majority.

It's from the apocryphal works of Freud, namely, "The egotist rides the idiot." :)