“Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.”
Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution
Fuente: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 7.
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“Security and aggression are terms of partisan interpretation.”
Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution
Fuente: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 7.
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.
Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution
The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), ch. 11.
Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution
The Roman Revolution ([1939] 2002), Introduction.
“Without a party a statesman is nothing. He sometimes forgets that awkward fact.”
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.”
Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution
Fuente: The Roman Revolution (1939), Ch. 9.
Ronald Syme libro The Roman Revolution
Introduction: Augustus and History
The Roman Revolution (1939)