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Barack Obama would no doubt recognize the protest of the defeated Celtic chief Calgacus to the Romans occupying his homeland: “Atque ubi solitudinum faciunt pacem appellant,” that is, “They create a desolation and call it a peace.” The phrase is a famous critique of the type of peace armies and occupation can bring and has no been invoked in columns and essays to argue against the American invasion of Iraq from day one. If elected as America’s next president, Obama risks creating a different kind...

Author: By D. MORGAN Potts | Title: The Wrong Type of Peace | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...national motto seems to 'have changed from E Pluribus Unum to Omnes Idem Faciunt-Everybody's Doing It. The President himself has helped propagate that notion. In his TV speech on Watergate two weeks ago, he assured the nation that "both our great parties have been guilty of such tactics ... the campaign excesses have occurred on all sides." Last week Vice President Agnew concurred. This is not the first time that governments have been linked to scandals, from Teapot Dome on down, said Agnew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Is Everybody Doing It? | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

Tota fabula iocorum est plena, qua de causa videbitis et professeres doctors et studiosos pueros perpetuo risu pulmones agitare. Histriones autem sunt omnes ad fabulam huius modi agendam aptissimi, nam minima cum difficultate Latine loquuntur, gestus vehementissimos faciunt, etiam saltare possunt. Ille quidem quie et Scaphae et Phanisci partes agit, videtur reapse saltatrix Romana esse. Et qui partes senum agunt, re vera ad similitudinem accedunt, baculis suis innituntur, barbas suas permulcent; qui partes invenum agunt, maxime iuveniles esse videntur--fervidi, ebriost, prodigi. Practerea enm personas et omne proscaenium theatre Romano simillimum spectabitis ac tibias audietis, putabitis ves non Cantabrigiae...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 4/16/1936 | See Source »

Habetisne Proctores, odiosos Virorum oppressores? Si ita, vestri Proctores euntne swaggerantes circa cum feris canibus Molossis, quos appellamus "Bull dogs?" Nostri id faciunt aliquibus temporibus, lugemus dicere. Sed non ita difficile est evadere ex illorum via Probabiliter habetis eandem idioticam systeman examinationum in qua nos gaudemus. Prope viam, quod est vestrum "Parvum Ite" simile ad, et dum estis in statu pupillari, estisne condemnati induere habitum semi-via inter bibum infantis, coloratum nigrum et adfixum tergo, et immundum pannum cujosdam coqui...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An International Episode. | 12/21/1886 | See Source »

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