Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes
No wise man ever thought that a traitor should be trusted.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. The Verrine Orations, Volume I. Translated by L. H. G. Greenwood, Harvard UP, 1928, p. 165.
The event that triggered the call was President Lyndon Johnson introducing the Voting Right Act. Russell had been a mentor to the young Johnson, a fellow Southerner who had voted against and blocked all civil rights legislation when he was in the House and Senate. However when he became President, his representation changed and he reverted to his pre-political views. {637651}
Treason has often been committed by those must trusted in a nation.
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.
