“In early 41 AD, Caligula became the first Roman emperor to be assassinated, the result of a conspiracy involving officers of the Praetorian Guard, as well as members of the Roman Senate and of the imperial court. “
We can only hope that in such an inevitability of tyranny by His Heinous and His own Praetorian Guards - that history repeats itself..... quickly.
However, given that history - a Republic never returned to Rome.
Which makes Adams’ warning all-the-more urgent: “Liberty lost is lost forever”.