Cicero

And this is why we need a leader like Trump?

Posted by David Zincavage at May 10, 2016 11:55 AM

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the new wonderful good society which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, and more living fatly at the expense of the industrious." --Marcus Tullius Cicero

Posted by Darkwater at May 10, 2016 5:13 PM

I recently finished Robert Harris' Cicero trilogy, which was unexpectedly fascinating.

Posted by Christian LeBlanc at May 10, 2016 6:56 PM

Does history repeat?
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke

Posted by Jimmy J. at May 10, 2016 8:07 PM

Re:David Zincavage
Yeh, so what ? Who do you suggest? For ALL of Trump's negatives ( a gazillion}, there are a ton of our betters with ALL of the positives, calling the shots, and what has it gotten us? A giant clusterf==K!

Posted by CMAK at May 11, 2016 9:31 AM