There is always an appropriate quotation from Cicero, is there not?
Tandem aliquando, Quirites, L. Catilinam furentem audacia, scelus anhelantem, pestem patriae nefarie molientem, vobis atque huic urbi ferro flammaque minitantem ex urbe vel eiecimus vel emisimus vel ipsum egredientem verbis prosecuti sumus. Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit. Nulla iam pernicies a monstro illo atque prodigio moenibus ipsis intra moenia comparabitur. Atque hunc quidem unum huius belli domestici ducem sine controversia vicimus. Non enim iam inter latera nostra sica illa versabitur, non in campo, non in foro, non in curia, non denique intra domesticos parietes pertimescemus.
“At long last, citizens, we have thrown out of the city Lucius Furius Catiline, the man who breathed recklessness, who snorted crime, who worked ruin on our country, who threatened you and the whole republic with destruction – thrown him out, I say; or sent him out, or at the very least sent him off with our worst wishes as he walked out the door. He has left; he has departed; he has escaped; he has broken loose. No more danger from that monster and freak-birthling will be found within for now. At the very least we have defeated one enemy leader in this internal battle. That dagger won’t be in our side anymore – we won’t have to fear him in our streets, in our society, in our government, or even within our homes.”
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