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>The Shakespeare quote just begs the following response...
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...and another? Samuel Johnson wrote "Patriotism is the last refuge of the
scoundrel". Many people take this as a comment on patriotism, but the
context suggests that he was attacking scoundrels. Tony N-S.
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The Shakespeare quote just begs the following response:
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending
spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing
evil, it multiplies it... Through violence you may murder the hater, but
you do not murder hate. In f
Thanks for this. I've seen it a number of times previously, but never as
attributed to Shakespeare. Some have tried to debunk it, saying that
Julius Ceasar never wrote it. Can you provide a more specific reference
for it?
Thanks again,
Stephen
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Title: Shakespeare on George W. Bush...
"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 reac
