RE: - A Timely Reminder -

["Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>]

This quote has been all over the Internet, usually attributed to Caesar, but
sometimes various persona such as Shakespeare and Herman Goering.  The
Classical Latin e-mail list couldn't identify it, and considered it made up.

No matter how good it sounds, lacking an authorative source, be sceptical of
the stuff you see on the Web.

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Ron Force	      	  rforce@moscow.com
Moscow Idaho USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cronin [mailto:jaycron@turbonet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 8:47 PM
> To: "Vision 2020 (E-mail)" <Vision 2020
> Subject: - A Timely Reminder -
>
>
> "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to whip the
> citizenry into
> a political fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.  It
> emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.  And when the drums of
> war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind
> has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the
> citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by
> patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
> How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
>
>  - Julius Caesar (101-44 B.C.)
>