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… is from page 140 of Robert Higgs’s excellent July 1994 paper, originally published in Explorations in Economic History, “The Cold War Economy: Opportunity Costs, Ideology, and the Politics of Crisis [2]” as this paper appears as Chapter 6 of Robert Higgs’s 2006 collection, Depression, War, and Cold War [3] (footnote deleted; link added):
Manipulation of information is central to what modern governing elites do. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, himself no stranger to the inner sanctums of government power, observed [as quoted on page 5 of this book [4]] that “knowledge is power, and the ability to define what others take to be knowledge is the greatest power.”