[I'm ALL Right!]

Amen and Amen.

[Entrepreneur]

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

[Red Badger]

Cicero in 55 A.D. eh?.............He died in 47 BC.............

[Da Coyote]

Good quote. As one who took Latin in HS (and actually really liked it) - methinks we need more of the classics and less boomer bullsh*t). Admission: I’m one of those boomers.

[Red Badger]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero

43 BC.......

[Diogenesis]

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable,
for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely,
his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys,
heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor;
he speaks in accents familiar to his victims,
and he wears their face and their arguments,
he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation,
he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city,
he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

A vampire moth in Siberia sucks blood from a researcher's hand.

---

Vampire Congressmen and Senators suck all the life and blood from every American's body.

[mewzilla]

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[JohnBovenmyer]

Shouldn’t that be 55BC?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Hmmm. Cicero wasn’t breathing in 55 AD, never mind writing that.

[yankeedame]

Hi guys. O.K., so I am a Latin...teacher....

(surprised) Well, dip me in detergent, I didn't even know they still had Latin teachers.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Snopes doesn’t always get it right but they say over there it might have been Taylor Caldwell, not Cicero.

[CatoRenasci]

Must have been 55 B.C.....

"Tully," as he was known in the 18th century, was a favorite of the Founders, especially for his writings on, and defense of, the Roman Republic.

[choctaw man]

“Opportunity is often missed because it is dressed in overalls and disguised as work.” - Thomas Edison

[yldstrk]

Thank you. How true. Learn to work and be useful to someone. That is why I just cannot bring myself to take a government job.

[MrChips]

Yes, it's B.C, and not A.D. Sorry! My Typo.

[Rockingham]

Unfortunately, although Cicero was correct in that and much else, he did not control a political gang or army necessary by then to rule Rome. Caesar did.