Zeus loosed two eagles, one from where the sun rose, Of Greece, nurtured religion, statecraft, Of America, and Philadelphia become the Athens of the western world." HeĬosts, Victory in spite of all terror, Victory
Benjamin Latrobeĭesigned these, envisioning that "the days of Greece may be revived in the woods Money seemed safer in banks built like solid Greek temples. Jeffersonĭesigned the first - Virginia's "Republican-style" Capitol in Richmond, inspiredīy a Roman temple he had seen at Nimes while U. Signed "Brutus" and "Civis," it was only natural that our borrowed institutionsįound homes in classical buildings called capitols from Rome's Capitoline. Repeated hammerblow - Greek devices which Cicero perfected.Īs our nation underwent its birth pangs and citizens filled journals with letters Weak secure and the peace preserved," all were using the triple link and the Kennedy said "where the strong are just and the Lincoln said "of the people, by the people, for the people" He couldĬicero's cadences ring in our oratory. The plebeians, the commoners, was the tribune (originally a tribal leader). The Latin for "old men." This council of elders stood as aįather to the people, so senators were patricians, from pater, or father.
No one man with unlimited power (except in crisis). Power," that legislative, executive, and judicial functions should be separate. Mighty mother of crops and mother of men!"įrom the Consent of the Governed." He warned that "power should be a check to Olives (opposite) in Virgil's "earthly paradise, Most of our wines flow from the grape species Of the staple crops of the ancient world. Farmlands he extolled, the poet Virgil sang
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