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
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
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
Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The German huts, open on every side to the eye of indiscretion or jealousy, were a better safeguard of conjugal fidelity than… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. — Filip Dewinter Copy Share Image
The virtue of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus was of a severer and more laborious kind. It was the well-earned harvest of many a… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan Copy Share Image
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic… — John Williams 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
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
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,… — Karl Marx 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
We still haven't gotten the message; we still don't see that it's bad. And then we copy everything about their [Roman Empire]… — Immortal Technique 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
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
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and… — Andrew Greeley Copy Share Image
The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry 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
Philosophy had instructed Julian to compare the advantages of action and retirement; but the elevation of his birth and the accidents of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is incumbent on us diligently to remember that the kingdom of heaven was promised to the poor in spirit, and that… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
