Wednesday, December 15, 2004

[1791 - Three-fourths of the states having ratified the ten Articles, the Bill of Rights was adopted]

To Horace, To Horace!

Perhaps the current administration could derive some small benefit from the words of the Roman poet Horace, written in 23 B.C.:

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
Odes, Book III, iv, line 65

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