God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than…

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon

In all times and in all places--in Constantinople, northwestern Zambia, Victorian England, Sparta, Arabia, . . . medieval France,Babylonia, . . . Carthage, Mahenjo-Daro,…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Violence never settles anything should be debated by the ghosts of Hitler and Stalin, with the city fathers of Carthage as referees.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview mirror, I blend into Time.”

— Charles Bukowski

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not…

— Richard Rodriguez

A small number of temples was protected by the fears, the venality, the taste, or the prudence of the civil and ecclesiastical governors. The…

— Edward Gibbon

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that…

— Francois Mauriac

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

— Cato the Elder

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

— Cato the Elder

“For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the…

— D.M. Murdock

Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.

— Robert A. Heinlein

During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and…

— Will Cuppy

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil…

— Henry David Thoreau

“According to Menander’s history, as preserved by Josephus, Hiram began his reign 155 years before the founding of Carthage, and according to the Greek…

— Charles River Editors

“I. Carthage. 900–200 B.C. In the third century B.C., Rome and Carthage divided the power of the Mediterranean world. Rome was first on land,…

— Theodore Ayrault Dodge