Where are you coming from?

[Drew Johnson]

Duo/2400 List wrote:

>Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 17:43:03 -0600
>Subject: [Duo2400] Re: Duo 2300c HD on a PB 1400c ?
>From: Randy & Cheyanne <charan at centurytel.net>
>Message-Id: <488B6A56-1219-11D7-9D63-0003931DAA8A at centurytel.net>--
>
>These words that I and others have attributed to Julius Caesar are not 
>his:
>
>"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 emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. 
>And when the drums of war have reached fever pitch, and the blood boils 
>with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need to seize 
>the rights of liberty. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and 
>blinded by patriotism, will offer up their rights unto the leader, and 
>gladly so."
>
They were probably spoken by Vladimir Lenin <g> -or Karl Marx

Since someone decided to wax political on the List, in juxtaposition, 
here are some words of wisdom from Winston Churchill, whom I view as one 
of history's greatest persons:

"If you can fight for "right" when you can easily win, without 
bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not 
so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with 
all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. 
There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance 
of victory because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

Rancho Santa Fe, People's Socialist Republic of Baja California

-- 
Very warm regards,
--
Drew Johnson
Captain FedEx-Ret
Captain  USNR-Ret