Cicero On Trump

Charles Fried

Quo usque tandem abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet?Quem cite finem sese effrenata iactabit audacia?

When, O Catiline, create you lot hateful to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours even as well as therefore to mock us? When is in that place to hold upwardly an cease of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering almost equally it does now?

--Cicero, First Cataline Oration

 Charles Fried is Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. You tin go accomplish him past times electronic mail at fried at law.harvard.edu

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