Re: [ST] "Shakespeare" quote

["Rick & Joyce" <rnjwes@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've always liked this one:
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. "
                    --Benjamin Franklin
- --
Rick in Oregon
'01 Sprint ST


> Great quote, and I agree with it 100%.  But I don't think it's from
The
> Bard.  At least I couldn't find it in a search of Shakespeare quotes
and I
> couldn't find it in the play itself. Or maybe (paranoia_mode=on) the
censors
> have been at work on my copy of Shakespeare!  Where did you get it
from?
>
> "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
> citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a
> double-edged sword. It both 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 with patriotism, will offer up all of
> their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this
is
> what I have done. And I am Caesar."
>
>             --William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar



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