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To: weikel; psyop
I think another good idea would be some quotes from Cicero, with "On Duties," "The Republic," and "The Laws" (De officiis, De re publica, and De legibus respectively), since I think he is one of the ancient fathers of conservatism.
5 posted on 05/11/2002 11:09:13 PM PDT by Pyro7480
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To: Pyro7480
I can't bring myslef to believe that Cicero had much intelligent to say he was incompetent at everything but speaking and Julius Caesar( whom I greatly admire) was of the opinion he was a pompous ass. Cicero was a Republican diehard long after the Republic had become totally unworkable and had become more of a Democracy. I'm a conservative but no fan of Democracy

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can exist only until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse (defined as a liberal gift) out of the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship." Alexander Tyler.

6 posted on 05/11/2002 11:15:50 PM PDT by weikel
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I've got those on cold storage. I've read and marked a couple of them up, but have not loaded the quotes into the data-base.
7 posted on 05/11/2002 11:20:35 PM PDT by PsyOp
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