“America…goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy,” -John Adams “The sinews of war are infinite money.” -Cicero Plato had it right when he said “All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.” War is universally decried but seldom avoided. Politicians love to speak of universal brotherhood but few can stave off […]
“Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies… march. Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed.” – Diocletian “If America ever falls, it will be an inside job.” – Paul Harvey (allegedly) History teaches us that excellence is hard to sustain. The grim reality is that things decay, complacency seeps in, […]
“I cannot find a faithful message-bearer, … How few are they who are able to carry a rather weighty letter without lightening it by reading.” -Cicero “Who is watching the Watchers?” ― James Hauenstein Knowledge is power. And when it relates to matters of governance or diplomacy, certain knowledge can be weaponized to great […]
“Is it possible that you are still seeking games, when your graves are already dug? … The Roman world is dying, and yet it laughs. We are in the very jaws of death, and we are playing.” – Salvian “We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at […]
“To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false pretenses, they [the Romans] call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” – Tacitus, Agricola “What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. […]
“Captive Greece took captive her rude conqueror.” – Horace “Here I am, Madam, gazing whole hours at the Maison Quarrée, like a lover at his mistress.” — Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to the Comtesse de Tessé (1787) It’s well known that the Founding Fathers looked to many ideas from Greece and […]
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer ‘Present’ or ‘Not Guilty’.” – Theodore Roosevelt — “No place is so strongly fortified that money cannot capture it.” – Marcus Tulllius Cicero In our high school civics class we were taught that the primary role of […]
Like you, I find YouTube to be a great source of video content on Rome and I like to call out great channels. I’m a big fan of archaeologist Darius Arya and recommend that you check out some of his content. Better yet I’ll introduce you to some of it here. The Pantheon is quite […]
“Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking. They want obedient workers… It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” – George Carlin — “Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out […]
“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt” Herbert Hoover It is a weakness that has probably plagued humanity ever since Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden. Why deal with a problem today when you can kick it down the road to be handled by someone who is […]