Tacitus Quotes
They terrify lest they should fear.
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See Franklin Delano Roosevelt {636844} and Henry David Thoreau {35833} for similar later statements.
See Thoreau {623573} and FDR {636844} for similar sentiments.
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.