The moral of Caesar | The New Criterion

No country was ever saved by good men, Horace Walpole once observed, because good men will not go to the length that may be necessary.

I thought often of Walpole s remark while reading Barry Strauss s thrilling account of the assassination of Julius Caesar, which is full of robust men going to incarnadine lengths.1

via newcriterion.com

All of the history of the pagans, including much of our own, seems like a very long version of The Godfather. Entertaining, yes, but hardly edifying. Of course, the Corliones were Catholic, but they weren’t Irish.