CICERO: Awesome Quotes!!!

 Cicero, Marcus Tullius

 Roman author, orator, & politician

(106 BC - 43 BC)

 

"The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquility, servitude is the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by  "

"By force of arms."
(Vi Et Armis)

Cicero

"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."

 "Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. 

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth."

"The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him."

Who said Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country?

Answer:

John F. Kennedy said this as part of his Inaugural Address on January 20, 1961.
He said it after Gen Omar Bradley. It was used in his "The New Frontier". JFK never gave any credit to him for the use of the quote. The real original comes from Marcus Tullius Cicero.