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Cicero did NOT say. :"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,

Cicero did NOT say. :"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled,

public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."<ref>It's a fake quote that was invented by a newspaper in 1986.  Paul F. Boller and John George, ''They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions'' (1990) p. 14</ref>

::It's a fake quote that was invented by a newspaper in 1986.  Paul F. Boller and John George, ''They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions'' (1990) p. 14

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