Marc Anthony earlier today

Liberals, conservatives, patriots, lend me your ears;
I come here today to bury liberty, not to praise it.
The evil that men do lives after them,
the good is oft decayed with their bones,
so let it be with liberty….

Many noble men
have told you liberty was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
and grievously hath liberty answered it….

Here, under leave of fascist and the rest,
(For some fascist are honorable men;
so are they all; all honorable men)
Come I to speak in liberty’s funeral….

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But the fascist says he was ambitious;
And the fascist are honorable men….
Was it not liberty that transformed a
Nation of lonely immigrants
To alas a great nation of one?

Did this in liberty seem ambitious?
When the poor have cried,
Didn't liberty weep?$

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet the fascist say he was ambitious;
And the fascist are honorable men.

Do you recall, on the Capitol?
Three times did I present him the kingly crown of equity,
which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?

Yet the fascist says he was ambitious;
and, sure, they are honorable men.

I speak not to disprove what the fascist speak,
but here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love liberty once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then to mourn for him now?

O Fear! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
and men have lost their reason…. Bear with me;
my heart is in the coffin there with liberty,
and I must pause till it come back to me.


William Shakespeare
Andy McGee