Quote of the year (55 BC)

AES · 31 Jan 2015

QUOTE:
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 we will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance.
UNQUOTE:

Cicero, 55 BC

Evidently we've learned sod-all over the past 2,070-odd years!

AES

flying haggis · 31 Jan 2015

should be in every party manifesto

Chrispy · 31 Jan 2015

Is he standing this time round? He'll have my vote.

Phil Pascoe · 31 Jan 2015

flying haggis":10wur0hu said:
should be in every party manifesto

Why? It'll only guarantee they won't do it.

DrPhill · 31 Jan 2015

Those words were never uttered by Cicero, however, and the reason no one ever quoted them as such until about fifty years ago is because they weren't written until 1965. They sprang from the pen of Taylor Caldwell, a fiction writer best known for historical novels such as Captains and the Kings.
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