Foolishly, the electorate that voted for him again and again could not see the truth even when it stared them in the face. But once it hit a nerve in their hip pocket, they turned on him. There is nothing new under the sun, however. Two thousand years ago, the Roman philosopher Cicero opposed the dictatorship of Julius Caesar and supported a return to the traditional republican government. But Cicero knew that blame should be cast beyond Caesar. Cicero said: 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 gave 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, interpreted to mean more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious. History repeats itself. May God have mercy on America more than He had on Rome.
Posted on: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 00:38:58 +0000
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