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The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.

— Joseph Goebbels Misattributed

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Joseph Goebbels very probably did not say this. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.

Source: Appears to actually be written by Hans Schwarz van Berk in a chapter introduction for a 1935 compilation of Der Angriff articles by Goebbels. (Der Angriff, Aufsätze aus der Kampfzeit, p. 61)
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

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