Tacitus Quotes
Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.
[Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]
Tacitus, Cornelius. The Annals. Translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, Macmillan, 1876.
Henry of Navarre. The Great Council was the first proposed International governing body—a precursor to the EEC, the UN and the League of Nations. Henry's plan included an international army and navy to enforce the decisions. See {622121} for another name for the idea.
See {642231} for has additional views on German leadership. Many serious Germans agreed, but the culture, concept of patriotism, and the laws did not encourage open discussion of negative things about the nation so the problem remained.
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – c. 120) was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. He lived in what has been called the Silver Age of Latin literature, and has a reputation for the brevity and compactness of his Latin prose, as well as for his penetrating insights into the psychology of power politics.
