I don't know how many of you read a lot of Roman history, but Pompey's famous quote "Stop quoting laws to those of us with swords" is almost always used to illustrate that Roman history had reached the end of the age of the rule of law and the beginning of the age of the military strongman.  To use it as an aspirational quote is.... well, it's something else.  It's a strange world we are now living in.