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To: chajin
You mean like the Founders made so many references to Cato? Perhaps it is because we are coming to the end of our Republic, and he sees this and wants to stop it, the way Cato and Cicero saw it in their day and wanted to stop it.

Yep, Cicero nailed Obama here:

"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


10 posted on 01/22/2016 1:15:02 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Las Vegas Ron; HarleyLady27; grania; blue jeans
Love the Cicero quote, Vegas :-)

How about Fortuna Audaces Iuvat?   To his great credit, Cruz lives that one.

Unfortunately, "imperator" William F. Buckley, and therefore causes 95% of the public to scratch their heads.

Trump's plain English — and Yiddish!! — channels the Gladiator.   And that's exactly why he can fill a Coliseum :- )

America Facere Magnum Iterum.


24 posted on 01/22/2016 4:34:44 PM PST by poconopundit (When the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government. Franklin, Const. Conv.)
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