How do I echo ASCII art that contains special characters in a batch file?

Question

So.. This is (to me anyway) the most important feature of this program. I need this to work. Please don\'t laugh.. (okay you can laugh) but when my program errors, I want it to

Answer 1

echo this one works
echo '                ***     ***
echo                *     * *     *
echo                *    *   *    *
echo                 *** *    ****
echo                   *       *
echo                  *  0   0  *
echo                  *    !    *
echo                  *         *
echo                  *   ~~~   *
echo                  *         *
echo            ======           ======
echo            ======           ======
echo      ======                       ======
echo      ======                       ======