Sic Semper Quotes

Your Bracelet," she said. "Acheronta movebo.' It doesn't mean 'Thus always to tyrants.' That's 'sic semper tyrannis.' This is from Virgil. 'Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo.' If I cannot move Heaven, I will raise Hell.

Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

If Checker Charley was out to make chumps out of men, he could damn well fix his own connections. Paul looks after his own circuits; let Charley do the same. Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.” He gathered up the bills from the table. “Good night.

Those who live by electronics, die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

No es ninguna casualidad que, mil novecientos años después, John Wilkes Booth utilizara «idus» como contraseña para el día que mató a Abraham Lincoln, ni que, mientras huía del escenario del crimen, Booth gritase una frase en latín: Sic semper tyrannis («Este es el destino de los tiranos»).

Sic Semper Reichsfeinde.” A sinister Nazi paraphrasal of the old Roman reproach in Latin; thus always to tyrants. How sinister the world now; 'Thus Always to Enemies of the Reich.

He settled into the Chelsea apartment as best he could with everything in his life in turmoil — no permanent abode, no publishing agreements, growing difficulties with the police, and what was to happen now with Marianne? — but when he turned on the TV he saw a great wonder that dwarfed what was happening to him. The Berlin Wall was falling, and young people were dancing on its remains. That year, which began with horrors — on a small scale the fatwa, on a much larger scale Tiananmen — also contained great wonders. The magnificence of the invention of the hypertext transfer protocol, the http:// that would change the world, was not immediately evident. But the fall of Communism was. He had come to England as a teenage boy who had grown up in the aftermath of the bloody partition of India and Pakistan, and the first great political event to take place in Europe after his arrival was the building of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. Oh no, he had thought, are they partitioning Europe now? Years later, when he visited Berlin to take part in a TV discussion with Günter Grass, he had crossed the wall on the S-Bahn and it had looked mighty, forbidding, eternal. The western side of the wall was covered in graffiti but the eastern face was ominously clean. He had been unable to imagine that the gigantic apparatus of repression whose icon it was would ever crumble. And yet the day came when the Soviet terror-state was shown to have rotted from within, and it blew away, almost overnight, like sand. Sic semper tyrannis. He took renewed strength from the dancing youngsters’ joy.

Mr. Booth has been completely hoodwinked and truly believes his actions will be perceived as part of the play… he thinks he will be using a prop gun, rather than a real one… insists upon shouting “Sic semper tyrannis” instead of the line we wrote for him. Believes the Latin will make him sound more erudite…

But only the English would insist on two separate versions of Gainsborough’s checkout line. Or even have the chutzpah to suggest it. Julius Caesar didn’t say “Et tu, Brute?” and “Where’s the Praetorian guard when you really need them?” John Wilkes Booth didn’t shriek “Sic semper tyrannis” and “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the play?

Virginia State Motto Sic semper tyrannis. [24] Law, order and an endless bounty of Gestapo-police.

Sic semper tyrannis,

Sic semper tyrannis,” Valentine quoted at me. It was a Latin phrase that meant ‘thus always to tyrants.’ Famously, John Wilkes Booth said it before blowing out Lincoln’s brains, but he’d been quoting Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.