The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Source: Marginalia, in Southern Literary Messenger (Richmond, Va., July 1849; repr. in Essays and Reviews, 1984).
-- Edgar Allan Poe, (Jan 19 1809-1849), US poet, short-story writer; He is famous for his mysterious, macabre stories and poems, e.g., The Gold Bug, 1843 and The Raven, 1845.