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Touché. Not by the peerless sheikh after all. It's pretty good writing, 
though, even if it's from a lesser poet, or the ancient Apocrypha Anonymous.

Well, was what "Caesar" says there true, or historically sound?

Here's another one. How about the Hermann Goering quote:

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a 
farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is 
to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't 
want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. 
That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who 
determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people 
along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a 
parliament, or a communist dictatorship. 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 peacemakers 
for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the 
same in any country."

True or false?

It's also widely distributed on the net, but the darndest thing, i dont 
find his memoirs on the bookshelf. Guess he didn't have much time to write 
them.

At 13:43 8.10.02 -0700, you wrote:

>It seems the quote is not actually Caeser's.  According to others who have 
>responded to my posting, it may be an urban legend.  Here are some sites 
>that others have provided me which discuss this.  If you want info on the 
>actual source of this quote check out the third site below.  Khaldoun
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>http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/talk:Julius_Caesar
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>http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl-caesar-quote.htm
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>http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/war-rightsquote.htm
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>http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm
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>Syed Khurram Husain wrote:
>Do you have a source from where you got this quote? Its been circulated
>before on this listserve, but the person who did so could not confirm
>whether it was indeed Julius Caeser was indeed the author.
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> > "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the
> > citizenry into 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? Because this is
> > what I have done. And I am Caeser."
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> > Julius Caeser
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