Joel Hames puts this quote from The Tempest at the start of his novel Bankers Town, to be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00I53L4NQ
I also think the politicians should take heed of these words:
Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1
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