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By Marcus Tullius Cicero
Marcus Cicero, Rome's maximum statesman and orator, used to be elected to the Roman Republic's maximum workplace at a time whilst his cherished state was once threatened through power-hungry politicians, dire fiscal problems, overseas turmoil, and political events that refused to interact. Sound conventional? Cicero's letters, speeches, and different writings are choked with undying knowledge and sensible perception approximately the best way to resolve those and different difficulties of management and politics. the way to Run a rustic collects the simplest of those writings to supply an exciting, good judgment consultant for contemporary leaders and voters. This short ebook, a sequel to How to Win an Election, gathers Cicero's such a lot perceptive techniques on themes comparable to management, corruption, the stability of energy, taxes, conflict, immigration, and the significance of compromise. those writings have encouraged nice leaders--including America's Founding Fathers--for thousand years, and they're simply as instructive at the present time as after they have been first written.
geared up through subject and that includes vigorous new translations, the ebook additionally contains an creation, headnotes, a word list, feedback for extra interpreting, and an appendix containing the unique Latin texts. the result's an enlightening creation to a couple of the main enduring political knowledge of all time.
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This is what I yearn for from our leaders, for it should be their greatest and most noble goal. Cicero began his political service to Rome in 75 BC as a quaestor supervising part of the province of Sicily and was posted to the town of Lilybaeum on the western coast of the island, far from the better-known Sicilian city of Syracuse. He performed his duties fairly and conscientiously, winning the praise of the Sicilians, who were accustomed to abusive officials intent only on looting the province for personal 13 H O W T O R UN A CO UN T RY gain.
He preferred to adorn Italy, not his own house, though it seems to me by benefiting Italy he adorned his own house all the more. But I digress from the point of our discussion, which is that there is no greater vice than greed, especially among those governing our country. For to use public office for personal 41 H O W T O R UN A CO UN T RY gain is not only immoral, but also criminal and just plain wicked. When the oracle of Apollo at Delphi told the Spartans that the only enemy who could conquer them was greed, she wasn’t speaking just to them but to every prosperous nation.
In a court speech from many years later, the older and wiser Cicero reflects on his experience as a young man returning to Italy as a much-needed lesson in humility. Gentlemen of the jury, I hope you won’t think I’m boasting if I speak of my experience as quaestor. It was certainly successful, but after all, I have served in many higher offices since then and don’t need to seek glory from that time long ago. Still, I will say that no one ever had a more popular or praiseworthy term of service. By Hercules, I believed back then that all of Rome must have been talking about nothing except the marvelous job I was doing in Sicily.