He certainly did. Indeed, similar sentiments have been expressed before, and not always by nice people:
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy: all you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger.
(Hermann Goering, commenting on the ease of taking a country to war regardless of its political system, during the Nuremberg trials)
