an ancient quote

[idiotropolis]

sup my ron & fez peoples?! i like to stop in here & there & read the forum too. i used to listen to them & many times began my friday night drinking alongside the rest of you's to the show, after work on my walkman. so i miss that kinda lol haha i'm sure they'll get back on in ny & if not i've gotten nuff laughs outta the show to last 4ever neway. well i was reading some of the posts on the america thread and it was just great to see post after post of people caring about our freedoms and recognizing our government is here to serve us & not the other way around. it inspired me to post a quote i've come across that's very old but no less recognizable today...

"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 Caeser"

Peace peoples...

[TheMojoPin]

Suckah.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm

Serving a heaping helping of glurge, right out of the starting gate. Ouch.

But still, welcome aboard.

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[phixion]

the quote may be bullshit but its still cool and its still correct. hey i actually prefer caesar not saying that, but i sure wish Brutus did.

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[Freebird]

Shouldn't it have finished by saying, "And I am Streisand?"

It would still be an ancient quote!

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[idiotropolis]

lmfao@snopes.com hahahaha!! i was kinda suspicious at his name being *inside* the quotation marks lol well i'll try to redeem the thread's title at least, tho not as ancient as barbara streisand i do think this quote's real (if not i'll b back in like 10 days with a different screenname lolz) Peace...

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."--Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, December 19, 1776

[DarkHippie]

i've seen this quote before, and when i first saw it, i actually looked through my copy of "Julius Caesar" for it, thinking that shakespeare wrote it.

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