Cato the Elder
>stoic farmer, rigid, incorruptible and honest>gains enough respect that he's invited to Rome and becomes powerful and respected politican>serves in various military campaigns including against Hannibal>"expels usurers" from his province, and subjugates Spanish tribes with an iron fist>fought for traditional Roman values, hated Greek degeneracy>constantly combated Scipio Africanus' cult of personality,which was the beginning of the slow road to the fall of the Republic>progenitor of Cato the Younger, also deserving of being on this list for being as based as his great-grandfather as a true conservative Roman>ended every speech, no matter how unrelated, with the phrase, "furthermore, I consider that Carthage must be destroyed" because he hated Carthage so much>which inspired the pro-German radio station Radio Paris in occupied France between 1940 and 1944 had "England, like Carthage, shall be destroyed!" as its slogan. >as well as the anti-Semitic Church of the Creator's slogan, Delenda est Judaica, "Judaism must be destroyed".>>85578based ernst, no one can call himself a polack that hasn't read a storm of steel