“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.”

About Marcus Tullius Cicero

Statesman • Roman

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, orator, lawyer, and philosopher who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order and is considered one of Rome's...