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The Roman Revolution (1939)
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Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.
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In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade....
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... libertas [liberty], like regnum [kingship] or dominatio [despotism], is a convenient term of political fraud.
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Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.
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The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth.
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The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests. In times of peace and prosperity it commands a wide measure of acquiescence, even of belief. Revolution rends the veil.
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Pietas prevailed, and out of the blood of Caesar the monarchy was born.
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Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
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Ronald Syme
Born:
March 11, 1903
Died:
September 4, 1989
(aged 86)
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