It Was Said By Cicero

Lend Me You Ears...


A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Cicero
[Pro Publio SestioRoman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC) ]



What I want to know is, where's this guy (and people like him in public office) when we need him?