The Old Timers Club

[NorthWesterner]

I picked it off another chat board, but did check it in Snopes to make sure it wasn't a known urban legend. But no, I can't give you any more background on it.

But I did Google it, and came up with some background.

It was quoted in a column in the Sierra Times, though I'm not sure that's much better as original source material than my quote.
http://www.sierratimes.com/02/07/03/sheriff.htm

This page has BOTH quotes:
http://www.ccmep.org/hotnews2/chilling071102html.htm
The Hitler quote with attribution, the Caesar without.

there is a cautionary note here, which says it might in fact not be from Caesar, but isn't definitive.
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/dreamweaver/quotes/qtpolitico.html
they cite the quote, then add:
[If anyone can provide a reliable source for this quote it would be greatly appreciated; in the meantime, this attibution should not be given much credence. --MN]
(see Anatole France)

but neither www.snopes2.com nor www.urbanlegends.com report it as an urban legend, which is promising.

PBS posted it on its web page, in a letter and not as a direct statement of PBS, but you would think they would have made a note if they knew it to be spurious.
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_family3.html

It shows up in a variety of quotation pages, such as
http://www.truth101.org/co-fame-people-histroy.html
http://www.concreteeye.org/content.html
and many others

But I found nothing definitive.

BUT, I did find this other quote, which I really like. And again, no specific source for the attribution, so don't ask. <g>

"The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?"
A.J. Muste


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