We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants, but until we climb them, we meet dead friends around us wherver we go, for we know our history.
Senate = Capitol
Supreme Court = Roman Temple
"Republicans" = Latin
"Democrats" = Greek
Lincoln Memorial = Parthenon of Athens
Jefferson Memorial = Rome's Pantheon
Dollar Bill "annuit coeptis" "novus ordo seclorum"
"He does not possess wealth, wealth posseses him" is Benjamin Franklin translating Aristippus
The moral sayings of Publius Syrus greatly influenced sayings Franklin popularized, like "a rolling stone gathers no moss."
In New York one can drive from Troy to Utica to Rome to Syracuse to Ithaca, passing through CIcero, Hector, Ovid, Solon, Scipio Center, Cincinnatus, Camillus, Romulus, Marcellus.
The Staute of Liberty is the Roman Goddess Libertas
"Virtue" appears more often in the founding documents than "freedom."
Jonathan Maghew, a preacher John Adams frequently visited, coined the phrase "no taxation without representation."
Monarchy ends in Despotism
Aristocracy ends in Oligarchy
Democracy ends in Anarchy
Presybyterian church placed a strong emphasis on literacy = Scottish enlightenment = Encyclopedia britannica
Scottish law was more shaped by French Law than English law. French law was based on Ancient Rome through the discovery of the Codex of Emperror Justinian I, a summary of Roman laws compiled in 6 A.D..
Darwin seems to be influenced by Adam Smith and James Hutton. James Hutton conceived of the geologic time-span.