Originally Posted by
Mr. P
"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
Will we heed the past and save our Country, our republic, or suffer the same end ?
Misquote. Cicero did NOT say "lest Rome become bankrupt." He said "lest Rome fall."
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson