Outline of Ancient Rome - Government and Politics of Ancient Rome

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“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.”
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“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
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“I summon to the winding ancient stair;
Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,”
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“This very Rome that we behold deserves our love ...: the only common and universal city.”
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