Words of Wisdom

Each Friday I'll be posting up a few Words of Wisdom. A Quotation from some famous bod or another.
Today's Quotation is from Julius Caesar, and is one of my favourites, and particularly relevant in the current climate.

"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 by patriotism,will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
How do I know this? For this, is what I have done.
And I am Caesar."

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