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"A day that will go down in infamy!" - Franklin D. Roosevelt December 7, 1941
July 1, 2024: The United States Supreme Court, with its attack on Democracy in America, has awakened a Sleeping Dragon!
WASHINGTON, July 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court found on Monday that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for any actions that were within his constitutional powers as president, but can for private acts, in a landmark ruling recognizing for the first time any form of presidential immunity from prosecution.
Photograph: Pearl Harbor. Surprise Attack by Japanese. December 7, 1941
Therefore, when the young die I am reminded of a strong flame extinguished by a torrent; but when old men die it is as if a fire had gone out without the use of force and of its own accord, after the fuel had been consumed; and, just as apples when they are green are with difficulty plucked from the tree, but when ripe and mellow fall of themselves, so, with the young, death comes as a result of force, while with the old it is the result of ripeness. To me, indeed, the thought of this “ripeness” for death is so pleasant, that the nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in his home port after a long voyage.
[Itaque adulescentes mihi mori sic videntur, ut cum aquae multitudine flammae vis opprimitur, senes autem sic, ut cum sua sponte nulla adhibita vi consumptus ignis exstinguitur; et quasi poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt, sic vitam adulescentibus vis aufert, senibus maturitas; quae quidem mihi tam iucunda est, ut, quo propius ad mortem accedam, quasi terram videre videar aliquandoque in portum ex longa navigatione esse venturus.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
De Senectute [Cato Maior; On Old Age], ch. 19 / sec. 71 (44 BC) [tr. Falconer (1923)]
#quote #quotes #quotation #youth #oldage #death #mortality #acceptance #harbor #journey #lifeanddeath #lifespan #oldage #ripeness #youth
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/cicero-marcus-tullius/44610/
Schau dir "NS loading the Algoma Innovator at the Sandusky Coal Dock" auf YouTube an https://youtu.be/G9L9cSYE1W4
Fascinating piece of #engineering
#coal #harbor