« Well, I managed to get | Main | Bush to speak at 9:45 »

"Did you know that two

"Did you know that two thousand years ago a Roman citizen could walk across the face of the known world free of the fear of molestation? He could walk across the earth unharmed, cloaked only in the words ‘Civis Romanis’ I am a Roman citizen. So great was the retribution of Rome, universally understood as certain, should any harm befall even one of its citizens. … Where is the retribution for the families and where is the warning to the rest of the world that Americans shall walk this earth unharmed, lest the clenched fist of the most mighty military force in the history of mankind comes crashing down on your house!?"
--Josiah Bartlet

I love quoting West Wing, but I don't like that this quote is so linked to real life now.

Posted by rina on September 12, 2001 08:34 AM |

Post a comment

Or if you'd rather sign in to Comment with Open ID or your LiveJournal username, fill in one of the boxes below:

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)