Brace yourself.
The following is what Streisand charecterized as a verbatim quote from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:
"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 with patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader, and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."
It boggles the mind that she actually thought she could get away with attributing this wretched abuse of English as the work of Shakespeare.
“Who made the salad?” “Ceasar made the salad!”
It’s an actual quote of Caesar himself isn’t it? There’s certainly nothing poetic about it.