Rome was built on seven hills in the wide plain of the…

In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town.

— Horace

Rome was not built in a day, unlike the Walmart down my street.

— MJ McGuire

Rome was not built in one day.

— John Heywood

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

— Alexander Payne

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and…

— Daphne Guinness

“When you fear nothing, you have nothing to fear”

— S.F. Chandler

It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a…

— Edward Gibbon

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

— Eddie Izzard

At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet.…

— Edward Gibbon

The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of whom knew…

— Ruth Hurmence Green

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and…

— Edward Gibbon

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

— Edward Gibbon

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction…

— Edward Gibbon

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman…

— Richard J. Maybury

Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates…

— Edward Gibbon