Ernesto Teodoro Moneta Quotes
The concept that flourished during the most glorious periods of republican Rome and that appeared in the Twelve Tables of the Law as one of the first, though as yet imperfect, affirmations of the rights of man, inspired the struggle between patricians and plebeians.
Moneta, Ernesto Teodoro. "Peace and Law in the Italian Tradition." Nobel Lectures, Peace 1901-1970, edited by Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, 1972, pp. 118-126.
Roman law shaped European law for centuries. Even in the most dictatorial regimes of monarchies usually felt an obligation to avoid summary execution and have a trial, even if a crude, trumped up one involving torture of the accused. This Roman law had a long and profound influence.
Socialist International Anthem. Also adopted by the Communists
Many New Yorkers and others felt that since the attack on the World Trade Center was made in the name of Islam, the mosque and commuity center should be built in another location further from Ground Zero. Ellison was debating someone who argued that the Mosque should not be built so that sensitivity can be shown for those New Yorkers who lost relatives and friends in the attack of September 11. Rather than insist on their Constitutional rights, the Muslim leadership of the project, moved the location somewhat further away from Ground Zero.
This law is the basis of many in the world to this day, including the United States. The law allowed Romans whose property had been unlawfully confiscated to recover from the person who took the property by bringing a case in the Roman Courts. This law exempted the highest public officials from being brought before the courts while they were serving their term of office, but as the quoted clause indicates, these high officials were not above the law and could be summoned to court AFTER their term of office.
Tibullus used the Latin “Roma eternal”. Rome is often referred to as “The Eternal City”.
Peter van der Kun. The Roman society had developed huge inequalities in the wealth of its citizens. Land was the measure of wealth as the value was produced by the farming of it. In an agrarian reform, the holdings of any one citizen was limited to 500 acres. In effect the Romans created a maximum of wealth. To the owners of the large tracts of land, this was a redistribution of wealth.
Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was an Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and later a pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He adopted the motto In varietate unitas! which later inspired Motto of the European Union.
