A quote for our times...

[fleetfootmike]

"To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace."

The Roman historian Tacitus, of the 'Pax Romana' (27BC - 180AD)

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[highstone.livejournal.com]

iirc Tacitus was thinking specifically of Augustus, "First Citizen" or Princeps, able to take the military title Imperator and turn the deal into an hereditary monarchy, doesn't remind me of anyone today though...