Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
I do not now so much as wish to have the Strength of Youth again that I wish'd in Youth for the Strength of an Ox or Elephant. For it is our Business only to make the best Use we can of the Powers granted us by Nature.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. De Senectute, De Amicitia, De Divinatione. Translated by William Armistead Falconer, Harvard University Press, 1923, p. 37.
In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt's followers bolted the Republican party when he failed to capture the presidential nomination. They formed the Progressive party. On the eve of the Progressive convention, Roosevelt was by a reporter asked how he felt. The party thereafter was often referred to as the "Bull Moose Party."
Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer and philosopher, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.
