George Santayana once said "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."Take a moment to read this speech, Cicero's Prognosis, by the Honorable Justice Millard Caldwell (D-Fl), who served as a US Army officer during WWI, Florida Governor, Congressman and Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court.
Of particular note is the quote, attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero "Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions and laughed delightedly at his licentiousness and thought it very superior of him to acquire vast amounts of gold illicitly. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean 'more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious.' Julius was always an ambitious villain, but he is only one man."
The stop for a moment and remember this speech was from nearly 50 years ago and the original incident was from 70 years before the birth of Christ.
And we wonder why we are in the place we are at today? - Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome.......
http://www.aapsonline.org/brochures/cicero.htm
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