I also think of Rome and here's the important thing I learned

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Marcus Tullius Cicero paid the ultimate price for his decision not to retreat from the arena to the pond -- soldiers loyal to his enemy, the would-be dictator Mark Antony, not only beheaded the politician, but they also cut off his hands for the crime of writing words against Antony's tyrannical inclinations.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPToday, service in the political arena rarely requires risk of literal life and limb -- but it can require the moral courage to speak unwelcome truths and then move to convert truth to action.
39% : If Hobbes suggested that, without government, life would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short," then being in government threatens the same, at least for those whose predilections run counter to the dominant left-wing culture.Elected and appointed officials, as well as scholars and pundits, expose themselves through their participation in public life to a myriad of discomforts ranging from the threat of lawfare aiming to bankrupt or even imprison, to cancelation of one's ability to earn a living, to online harassment.

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