O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? in what city are we living? what constitution is ours? There are here,—here in our body, O conscript fathers, in this the most holy and dignified assembly of the whole world,men who meditate my death, and the death of all of us, and the destruction of this city, and of the whole world.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 'First Oration against Catiline'