“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.” —-Cicero, 55 BC http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes.nsf/ByName?SearchView
“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, 55 BC httphttp://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes.nsf/ByName?SearchView
“A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?” —-Cicero, 55 BC http http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes.nsf/ByName?SearchView
“The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.” —-Cicero, 55 BC http http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes.nsf/ByName?SearchView
Argument.
Practice. Cicero defines it as probable reason proposed in order to induce belief. Ratio probabilis et idonea ad faciendam fidem. The logicians define it more scientifically to be a means, which by its connection between two extremes, establishes a relation between them. This subject belongs rather to rhetoric and logic than to law.
“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The opinions of philosophers, physicians, and poets are to be alleged and received in causes {Auctoritates philosophorum, medicorum, et poetarum, sunt in causis allegandæ et tenendæ}; Bouvier’s Law Dictionary, 6th Ed. (C.&P. 1856); Black’s Law Dictionary, 5th Ed. (West Publishing Co.); Cf. http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/ … http://www.lpboulder.org/quotes/