" One of the regrets of my life is that I did not study Latin. I'm absolutely convinced, the more I understand (the Founding Fathers of the United States), that it was that grounding in Greek and Latin that gave them their sense of the classic virtues: the classic ideals of honor, virtue, the good society and their historic examples of what they could try to live up to. "

David McCullough, historian and author, on Understanding the Founding Fathers