 And Churchill said, these are not dark days, these are great days, the greatest days our country has ever lived. Now, that might strike you as Looney Tunes. Where'd he get that idea? Well, when he was a kid, and this is the way school used to be, he learned and recited all 1,200 lines of the English poem Horatius about the ancient Roman hero who defended the Republic from the invasion. And the most famous stanza of Horatius is...