Say to All the World “This Was a Man.”

Happy Second Battle of Philippi Day to all who celebrate!

BRUTUS 

I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord.
Thou art a fellow of a good respect;
Thy life hath had some smatch of honor in it.
Hold, then, my sword, and turn away thy face
While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato? 

STRATO 

Give me your hand first. Fare you well, my lord. 

BRUTUS 

Farewell, good Strato.
Caesar, now be still.
I killed not thee with half so good a will.

On a related note, I was chatting with an old mentor recently, and he reminded me that in the mid-90s, I had adapted Antony's famous speech as part of a debate between yours truly and the Founder of our company during an all-hands.  I was assigned (intentionally and ironically) to defend Asynchronous Transfer Mode, a dreadful technology that I despised (vindicated by history), against the Internet Protocol.

Alas, I no longer have my version in hand, so here's the original (if you are so inclined, watch Brando delivering it, which Mrs H showed us in HS sophomore English):

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest
(For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men), 

Come I to speak in Caesar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me,
But Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man. 

He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And Brutus is an honorable man. 

You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious,
And sure he is an honorable man. 

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause.
What cause withholds you, then, to mourn for
him?

But anyway.  I was surprised to hear anybody remembered that event at all, let alone the fact that my opponent uncharacteristically conceded defeat.  So that was a nice stroll down Amnesia Lane.

In conclusion: The evil that men do lives after them, and no good will be interrèd with Trump's bones.