I just got Linda Allen's occasional newsletter in my e-mail. In it, she includes the following quote for one's enlightenment and edification. I thought I would pass it along.

From WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE:

"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."

Respectfully submitted,

Don Firth