Best Quote of Any Era

[Oldgrunt]

"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 will become bankrupt. People must again learn to work instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero, 55 BC


So, evidently we haven't learned a damn thing over the past 2,069 years.

 

[Eidolon]

"I am THE Way THE truth and THE Life. Who ever comes to Me shall Not perrish but have ever lasting life."

Jesus Christ (approximately) 30AD

 

[Oldgrunt]

"I am THE Way THE truth and THE Life. Who ever comes to Me shall Not perrish but have ever lasting life."

Jesus Christ (approximately) 30AD

That is good from a religious standpoint. I much prefer John 11:25-26, "Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life: He that believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth and believeth in Me shall never die. Believeth thou this?" The original quote was for the secular world, not for the religious world.

 

[Rhino]

So, evidently we haven't learned a damn thing over the past 2,069 years.

We have. They haven't!!

 

[BigSlick]

History repeats itself once again.

 

[stewie-Y]

The Roman Republic did, though, convert itself to a wonderfully powerful and tyrannical dictatorship a few years after that statement was made.