As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time… — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“From steel-town Youngstown to the crumbling marble of Rome — Earl Jenkins ain’t no ordinary knight. He drinks monk-brew, fights Huns, and… — Tapio Tiihonen Copy Share Image
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an… — 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
If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“The inescapable truth... is that, within a miraculously short period of five years, your Government reduced this country from a position of… — Robert Boothby Copy Share Image
The character of the tribunes was, in every respect, different from that of the consuls. The appearance of the former was modest… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have… — Vicki Myron Copy Share Image
The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn't come to an end, so I see the American Empire… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Exhaling in resignation, Vanessa drew her sword, offered a silent prayer for Starke’s safety, and uttered, “Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.” ” — Stephen A. Reger Copy Share Image
But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“There is no indication that any church official suggested or supported the emperor's action against gay people. On the contrary, the only… — John Boswell Copy Share Image
It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Such, indeed, is the policy of civil war: severely to remember injuries, and to forget the most important services. Revenge is profitable,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than… — Stephen Baxter Copy Share Image
If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At the end of the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine period, the empire shrinks and shrinks until it consists of one city,… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire,' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning… — Anthony Mann Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it… — Attila the Hun Copy Share Image
All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion… — Donald Kagan Copy Share Image
At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of… — James Hannam Copy Share Image
