Phaedrus Quotes
An alliance with a powerful person is never safe.
Phaedrus. The Comedies of Terence, and the Fables of Phaedrus. Translated by Henry Thomas Riley, H. G. Bohn, 1853, p. 374.
This speech was given before it was discovered that graduates of these programs, particularly, the School of the Americas, were guilty of mass atrocities and dictatorial government such as the Argentinean “Dirty War” in the late 1970s. See also his {631951}
Abrams has a cynical view of government and his string ideology and abrasive style tended to create a lot of enemies for him. Many disagree with him, and especially many presidents. A president who has a member of his cabinet who is an “enemy” and retained him in office would be a very weak and foolish President.
Ideologues and men of strong principles are not open to compromise and often are not persuasive of others. Compromise and persuasion is necessary for success in politics.
After the economic & power collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States was the only remaining superpower. Givern Russia's diminshed capability and many Americans still carrying resentments about the Cold War, America's foreign policy and diplomacy did not treat Russia as if they were a very important power in the world. Puten greatly resented the fact that Russia was no longer considered or treated like a world power, Russia had a nuclear arsenal and a total delivery system what was in the same destructive potential class as the United States. There were many Russiabs who had similar resentments and Putin sert out to adopt policieis and practices that would force the United States and the other nations to consider them with more dignity, respect and consdideration. This was a typical statement of the period when he was "stoking the fires of Russian resentment.
Gaius Julius Phaedrus (/ˈfiːdrəs/; Greek: Φαῖδρος; Phaîdros) was a 1st-century CE Roman fabulist and the first versifier of a collection of Aesop's fables into Latin. Few facts are known about him for certain and there was little mention of his work during late antiquity. It was not until the discovery of a few imperfect manuscripts during and following the Renaissance that his importance emerged, both as an author and in the transmission of the fables.
