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Ronald Syme
6 quotes
“In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade; and Roman history, Republican or Imperial, is the history of the governing class. The marshals, diplomats, and financiers of the Revolution may be discerned again in the Republic of Augustus as the ministers and agents of power, the same men but in different garb. They are the government of the New State.”
Ronald Syme (1903–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.”
Ronald Syme (1903–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.”
Ronald Syme (1903–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth.”
Ronald Syme (1903–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests. In times of peace and prosperity it commands a wide measure of acquiescence, even of belief. Revolution rends the veil.”
Ronald Syme (1903–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At Rome all men paid homage to libertas, holding it to be something roughly equivalent to the spirit and practice of Republican government. Exactly what corresponded to the Republican constitution was, however, a matter not of legal definition but of partisan interpretation. Libertas is a vague and negative notion—freedom from the rule of a tyrant or a faction. It follows libertas [liberty], like regnum [kingship] or dominatio [despotism], is a convenient term of political fraud.”
Ronald Syme (1903–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source