Roman empire Quotes

“Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.”

— Ruth Downie

“The truth is heavier than a sword.”

— Naiyem Chowdhury Rony

“Even those who lack tombs are covered by the sky.”

— Lucan

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

— S.F. Chandler

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

— Voltaire

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

— Eddie Izzard

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

— Filip Dewinter

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

— Edward Gibbon

I’ve been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn’t fall nearly fast enough!”-Iggy

— James Patterson

“It’s spring now, and I was just thinking that I haven’t been in love since the fall. The fall of the Roman…

— Jarod Kintz

“Some men thought about the Roman Empire at least once a day. Krys was my Roman Empire.”

— Dannika Dark

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

— Robert Fisk

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

— Robert Benchley

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every…

— Edward Gibbon

But the human character, however it may be exalted or depressed by a temporary enthusiasm, will return by degrees to its proper…

— Edward Gibbon

As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which…

— Edward Gibbon

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

— Edward Gibbon

Instructed by history and reflection, Julian was persuaded that, if the diseases of the body may sometimes be cured by salutary violence,…

— Edward Gibbon

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time…

— Romano Prodi

Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman…

— Tom Shales

Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the…

— Nancy Pearcey

The distinctions of personal merit and influence, so conspicuous in a republic, so feeble and obscure under a monarchy, were abolished by…

— Edward Gibbon

The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable…

— William Henry Chamberlin

To resume, in a few words, the system of the Imperial government, as it was instituted by Augustus, and maintained by those…

— Edward Gibbon

There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand,…

— Karl Marx

“The Fathers of the American Constitution, well-versed in the classical heritage, consciously constructed an awkward governmental system like republican Rome's: much better…

— Norman F. Cantor

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by…

— Edward Gibbon

When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate…

— Edward Gibbon

There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and…

— Edward Gibbon

“The claim at the heart of this book has been carefully researched by several generations of scholars and is orthodox in academic…

— Dr. Teresa Morgan

“Blood & Sand by Stewart Stafford Enduring to be burned, bound, beaten, And to die by the sword if necessary; Verus and…

— Stewart Stafford

“There were a great many other such tableaux. As Martial had predicted, bears featured prominently in most of them. A temple thief…

— Steven Saylor

“If, instead of Wainwright's question, we ask 'What were the Picts?', the answer is very simple. They were a nation created by…

— W.A. Cummins

“Villicus Vadum: Soldier Of Fortune by Stewart Stafford I am the ghost of lupine Romulus, Founder of Rome, hear my tale, Of…

— Stewart Stafford

“For, from the time that the Bishop of Rome had gotten to be acknowledged for bishop universal, by pretence of succession to…

— Thomas Hobbes

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“The Diverted Imperium by Stewart Stafford Welcome to my lush vineyard, As we crush poison grapes, Forcing that last vinegar sip, Of…

— Stewart Stafford

If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York…

— John Lennon