"... It was Seneca or it was Cicero, I don't know which, that said, "If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.""
— Cicero

January 1, 1970

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Ronald Reagan, in the second presidential debate of 1984, responding to a question challenging his fitness, being "the oldest President in history". May be a loose paraphrase of the "greatest states" quote (above) from Cicero's On Old Age.