Cincinnatus
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Sep 18, 2026
Bryan HarrisGUEST
... and don't be a person that's a loud mouth.
Bryan HarrisGUEST
Be the George Washington, the Cincinnati, that God forces out when-
Bob LotichHOST
Yeah
Bryan HarrisGUEST
... you're ready-
David McCulloughSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They were very great men, and quite imperfect, and they changed the world.
David McCulloughSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When George Washington turned over his command of the Continental Army to the Congress, relinquished power as no general had ever done before, no conquering general had ever done before, George the Third, King George the Third, had heard that this might happen, and he said, "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world." That was the example, which goes back, of course, to Cincinnatus, the Roman model.
David McCulloughSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So they were learning from history, profiting from history, drawing strength from history.
David McCulloughSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Not the same history we draw strength from or our examples from, but a different history.
Doug BradburnGUEST
And just to complete the thought, I mean, this is why when he gives up his commission at the end of the war, goes back to Mount Vernon here, you know, becomes a farmer again, back to the plow.
Doug BradburnGUEST
He's emulating the Roman general, Cincinnatus, and he's called the modern Cincinnatus.
Doug BradburnGUEST
The Cincinnati is named after that, you know, the Society of Cincinnati.
Doug BradburnGUEST
This idea is ingrained in the fundamental founding of America.
Kevin RobertsHOST
Liberty would require laws, yes, but it would also require character.
Kevin RobertsHOST
Mount Vernon became a pilgrimage because Washington made the ideals of the revolution visible.
Kevin RobertsHOST
Here was Cincinnatus at his farm.
Kevin RobertsHOST
Here was the victorious general back among his friends.
Bode SwansonGUEST
And so it wasn't a surprise.
Bode SwansonGUEST
I mean, to us, it sounds so foreign, like who are these geniuses that knew Cicero well and Cato well and Pericles and and Cincinnatus, but this came just as a result of their education.
Bode SwansonGUEST
That was just fundamental to society back then.
Bode SwansonGUEST
That we've lost.
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Bode SwansonGUEST
I think right away.
Bode SwansonGUEST
I mean, I think as early as they're able to understand, you talk about reading your kids' stories and Aesop's fables and Grimm's fairy tales.
Bode SwansonGUEST
I mean, if kids knew the story of Cincinnatus, And let me just tell the story of Cincinnati's real quick.
Bode SwansonGUEST
So since status was before Rome was an empire, it was a republic.
KelsPANELIST
[laughs] Cincinnati.
DavoHOST
Cincinnatus.
NealHOST
So it's, uh, C-I-N-C-I-N-N-A-T-I.
DavoHOST
Hey, look, I spelled that right.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
um in a expose exactly like i don't know like five years ago i wouldn't have thought this but now i'm looking at it just oh man based so the scope of jewish dictatorship in the united states the details of which have already been described um he wrote a friend um that the outstanding man himself must expect attack and jealousy uh anti-semitic bigotry restricted his activity in the democratic party um you know but of course we know that he's doing all of his business dealings with jews and he's making all of his money um off of doing these multi multi-million dollar deals with the guggenheims and uh josephus daniels and uh enu brandeis and all these others and uh You know, they're then coming into these companies around the country and telling them what they should produce and how much of it they should produce.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
And, you know, he's not like a Cincinnatus figure who just walks away at the end of the war and goes back to private business.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
No.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
Like, he continues onwards politically.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
And, uh, you know, they're then coming into these companies around the country and telling them what they should produce and how much of it they should produce.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
Um, and, you know, i- i- he's not like a Cincinnatus figure who just walks away at the end of the war and goes back to private business.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
No.
Philos MiscellanyGUEST
Like, he continues onwards politically.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
Chapter 25.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
Of the poverty of Cincinnatus and of many other Roman citizens.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
Elsewhere I have shown that no ordinance is of such advantage to a commonwealth as one which enforces poverty on its citizens.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
And although it does not appear what particular law it was that had this operation in Rome, especially since we know the agrarian law to have been stubbornly resisted, we find as a fact that 400 years after the city was founded, great poverty still prevailed there, and may assume that nothing helped so much to produce this result as the knowledge that the path to honors and preferment was closed to none, and that merit was sought after wheresoever it was to be found.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
In proof whereof I shall cite one instance only.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
When the consul Minucius was beset in his camp by the Equians, the Roman people were filled with such alarm lest their army should be destroyed that they appointed a dictator, always their last stay in seasons of peril.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
Their choice fell on Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus, who at the time was living on his small farm of little more than four acres, which he tilled with his own hand.
Linda JohnsonNARRATOR
The story is nobly told by Titus Livius, where he says, This is worth listening to by those who contemn all things human as compared with riches, and think that glory and excellence can have no place unless accompanied by lavish wealth.
Doug BradburnGUEST
So we are in great shape and We do this work because we do it in trust for the American people, because Mount Vernon is a place that's been important to Americans from the very beginning of our independence.
Doug BradburnGUEST
It was the place where you could come to see Cincinnatus.
Doug BradburnGUEST
You can't have Cincinnatus without the plow.
Doug BradburnGUEST
And George Washington was America's Cincinnatus and the first story that Americans told.
Doug BradburnGUEST
And so that's the story.
Doug BradburnGUEST
We emphasize and we emphasize, you know, what we share as a people.
Scott HortonGUEST
Only, guess what, though? Sala came back, and he was pissed.
Scott HortonGUEST
Instead of retiring to his farm like Cincinnatus, he said, oh, yeah? And he went away mad, and he took two-thirds of the army with him, and guess where he went? He went up north to join forces with the Houthis.
Scott HortonGUEST
That's right.
Scott HortonGUEST
Guess what? Abdullah Saleh was a Zaydi Shiite too.
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