Cicero

Cicero believed that the republic could only be saved by better men, imbued with the virtues of prudence, restraint, and loyalty to Republican ways. The utter disaster of such wishful thinking prompted leaders, nearly 2,000 years later, to look to a different answer: to mechanisms that would recognize that "men are not angels" and restrain power despite human nature's worst instincts. --by Jeff Greenfield, Low Roads Lead To Rome, Washington Monthly, June, 2002, review of Cicero, by Anthony Everitt


Recommended reading:
by Cicero at Reading Rat