Cicero the Conservative

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." ~ Cicero - 55 BC

I think that modern-day Democrats would call Cicero a "mean-spirited un-compassionate Conservative" based on that quotation. It also sounds like after 2000 years of socialistic tendencies of certain people and the resulting failures of the nations that took those foolish philosophies into practice has taught us absolutely nothing. We rush to repeat the mistakes of those people from over two millennium ago, and all of the others between then and now that have failed accordingly because of such folly.