“Right now, is not the time to strike at the Romans, but it will come, and we will all rise and wipe… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. — Dan Quisenberry Copy Share Image
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that… — Brent Scowcroft Copy Share Image
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The Roman Empire at its height was the largest empire the world had ever witnessed.” — Christopher Lascelles Copy Share Image
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
People think that, that conversion to Judaism is just a modern phenomenon. But there was an era in the late Roman Empire… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
“In his entire life, Father Abaddon Sohar had never seen anything like what was in that cell, and he knew instantly that at least… — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“To be clear, the Roman Empire didn’t end because everybody was having sex. No civilization was ever toppled by “too much sexy… — Jennifer Wright Copy Share Image
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
“Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the… — Alejandro C. Estrada Copy Share Image
Malcolm Bradbury made the point, and I don't know whether it's a valid one or not, that the real English at the… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“I want to be Empress.” “Oh, Theodora, don’t be insane.” Antonina took her friend’s hands. “Do you really think a circus clown… — Carol Strickland Copy Share Image
The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
That public virtue which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The Roman Catholic Church early on simply adapted the hierarchical structure of the Roman Empire and confused the whole thing. Vertical attention… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
“He sat there all through a history lesson about the Roman Empire, which--having lived in the Roman Empire, for the four hundred… — Susan Cooper Copy Share Image
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life… — Abraham Kuyper Copy Share Image
“My people were extremely independent in both nature and outlook, this perhaps making a future clash between the Romans and us during… — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
The terror of the Roman arms added weight and dignity to the moderation of the emperors. They preserved the peace by a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin… — Justo L. Gonzalez Copy Share Image
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
