Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
Please consider the following quote and place your thoughts about it within your reply:
"To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace"
-- Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56-ca. 117)
Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (Hover)
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
-- Tacitus, Roman senator and historian (A.D. C.56-c.115)