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Ronald Syme fue un historiador neozelandés, uno de los más destacados en la investigación de la Antigua Roma. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. marzo 1903 – 4. septiembre 1989   •   Otros nombres 纳德·赛姆, 納德·賽姆
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“Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.”

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Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution

Fuente: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 7.

“The political cant of a country is naturally and always most strongly in evidence on the side of the vested interests.”

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Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution

The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), ch. 11.
Contexto: 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.

“… libertas [liberty], like regnum [kingship] or dominatio [despotism], is a convenient term of political fraud.”

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The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), ch. 11.

“In all ages, whatever the form and name of government, be it monarchy, republic, or democracy, an oligarchy lurks behind the façade….”

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The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), Introduction.

“Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.”

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Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution

Fuente: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 4.

“The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the Commonwealth.”

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Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution

Fuente: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 9.

“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.”

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Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution

Introduction: Augustus and History
The Roman Revolution (1939)