Reply #19: My first ever DU sig line- [View All]

[jmm]

"...the same observations of a great man will apply to the court of a president possessing the powers of a monarch, that is observed of that of a monarch-ambition with idleness-baseness with pride-the thirst of riches without labor-aversion to truth-flattery-treason-perfidy-violation of engagements-contempt of civil duties-hope from the magistrate's weakness: but above all the perpetual ridicule of virtue..."
-"Letter of Cato No. 4" 1787

I was writing a paper on Antifederalists around the time I joined DU and when I came across this quote it kind of made me think of Bush. I kept that one for awhile but then started to change it about once a month so I don't really remember the rest.