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Liberty Quotes from A Pillar of Iron Nov 26, 2023 11:48:27 GMT 8 Struth and cardimona like this

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A Pillar of Iron

Taylor Caldwell First published January 1, 1965

The spirit of ancient Rome in its last days of glory. The hero of the story, the man called "a pillar of iron" is Marcus Tullius Cicero, the lawyer-statesman who tried vainly to save the republic he loved from the forces of tyranny. Unfolding here are the private dramas behind the great Roman hero's triumphs and defeats

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Liberty Quotes from A Pillar of Iron Nov 26, 2023 11:51:38 GMT 8 Struth likes this

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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.

But it cannot survive treason from within.

An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.

But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.

He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

A murderer is less to fear.”

― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron

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“Wicked men are born every generation, and it is the duty of a nation to render them impotent. When you discover a man who seeks power for himself, out of hatred or contempt for his fellows, destroy him,”

― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron: A Novel of Ancient Rome

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Liberty Quotes from A Pillar of Iron Nov 30, 2023 11:29:11 GMT 8 Struth likes this

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“Man and the State.

Always must they be enemies,

for men had been given freedom by God

and the State hated God, and loathed men

and everlastingly fought against the rights of men.

The liberty of the individual defied the luxury and the privileges of those who deemed themselves greater and wiser than their fellows,

and wished to enslave their brothers.”

― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron: A Novel of Ancient Rome

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Liberty Quotes from A Pillar of Iron Dec 7, 2023 21:11:49 GMT 8 Struth likes this

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“What is it that Aristotle said:

‘Republics decline into democracies, and democracies degenerate into despotisms.’

We have approached that day.”

― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron: A Novel of Ancient Rome

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Liberty Quotes from A Pillar of Iron Dec 19, 2023 9:04:06 GMT 8 Struth and Chilli like this

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Spanish
“El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.”

English translation

“The world is never static;

Every year that passes is a different world.

However, now that everyone says that we live in a changing world, I think it is an excuse to justify excesses.”

― Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron

Last Edit: Dec 19, 2023 9:05:49 GMT 8 by NFA

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