Re: one year later - tips911.jpg (1/1)

From: Mr. F. Le Mur <lemurama@attxbi.com>
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.slack
Date: Tue, Sep 10, 2002 10:13 PM

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:11:18 -0700, Champion Jack Codini
<Codini@subgeniusdot.whatever> wrote:

->On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 18:25:43 GMT, Mr. F. Le Mur <lemurama@attxbi.com>
->said:
->
->>On Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:55:53 -0400, ZONTAR JOHNSON <n@m.net> wrote:
->>
->>->Come the Revolution we'll have other Ass-holes ruling us.
->>->Long live the Proctocracy.
->>->Comrade Z
->>
->>I love this quote:
->>
->>"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 by 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." - Julius Caesar
->>
->This is great,
->Where did you find this quote?
->~Codini

Great punch-line, huh?

While trying to verify its accuracy I discovered that it's all over
the place (google on [+"bangs the drums" +Caesar], etc). I'm not
completely convinced that it's not fake...Caesar wrote a fair amount
of stuff, and what little I've read was less florid, and it never
has a cite tho one guy sorta said it was from "De Bello Gallico."

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/quotes.html
http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/
...etc...

Doubters:
http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/hyper-lists/latin-l/02-03-01/0047.html

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