John E Hayes III wrote: >Keith Addison wrote: > > >>Great quote. Only problem is that there is no record Caeser ever said it. > >> > >>http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm > >> > >Inasmuch as Snopes is to be believed. > >Maybe I'm slow, but what does Snopes have to gain from claiming there is >no record Caeser made the statement. Seems to me that if Caeser *did* >say it, it would be pretty easy for someone to come up with a proper >citation and prove Snopes wrong.
Maybe it was Caesar's speech-writer. Nice bit of work anyway. >Besides, why should we make up false attributions when real ones will do >just as well. For example, I stumbled across this one today. > >"Of course the people don't want war... that is understood. But, after >all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's >always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a >democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or acommunist >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 pacifists for lack of >patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any >country." --Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's Deputy Chief and Luftwaffe >Commander, at the Nuremberg trials, 1946. > >Sound familar to anyone? So you didn't like these then? >"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." > >"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." > >"We shall fight on the beaches, in the fields, in the streets and in >the hills." Keith Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
