Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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For men who had claimed to be liberators, exile anywhere was a bitter defeat.
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Geico?
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Malicious, rancorous, unfair—but it was the mark of a free Republic that its citizens’ speech be free too.
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send to FIRE?
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“Always fight bravely, and be superior to others,” Posidonius had admonished Pompey,
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One way to lead
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The old certainties of what it meant to be a Roman had been poisoned, and a confused and frightened people despaired of what had once bound them together: their honor, their love of glory, their military ardor. Freedom had betrayed them. The Republic had lost its liberty, but worse, it had lost its soul. Or so the Romans feared.
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Good description of America in the 20's
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“Back-breaking labor, and the urgings of tough poverty—these can conquer anything!”
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Hoo rah
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“The fruit of too much liberty is slavery”39 had been the mournful judgment of Cicero—and
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Fruit of too much liberty is slavery
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