Since by the ordination of God I both am called and am Emperor of the Romans, in nothing but name shall I… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
Roman military tactics were much over-rated. All the clever ones had the same idea, which was to go round the back. — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“Romans is the most influential document in Christian history. It stimulated not only the Protestant Reformation but many other revivals throughout history.” — George R. Knight Copy Share Image
The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about… — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
The best match I've ever been in match-wise, I wrestled The Undertaker in France in a coliseum that was built in 300… — Big Show Copy Share Image
“Why the Romans, Father?" I asked him one afternoon. "Because, my child, they teach us how to bear suffering in a world… — Judith Merkle Riley Copy Share Image
“Romans 8: 28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have… — Shelley Lubben Copy Share Image
Needless to say, they refused to submit to the Empire, conducting such a persistent guerrilla war that the Romans gave up hope… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Caligula wished that the Roman people had but one neck that he might cut it off, and as I read this letter… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The Greeks by their laws, and the Romans by the spirit of their people, took care to put into the hands of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
The Temple of Dendur," Zia said. "Actually it was built by the Romans - " "When they occupied Egypt," Carter said, like… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Must I remind you that it was the Romans who brought civilization to your country?" Ralston's eyebrows rose. "You plan to be… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
“The Romans eat much Garlic and the Hungarians more while in the Markets of Sidon lovelorn Men pay Ransoms for a Jelly… — Lawrence Norfolk Copy Share Image
“In the year 754 BC, on the hills near the Tiber River, the Romans founded their capital city, Rome. During the 6th… — Marilyn Tolhurst Copy Share Image
“Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“That Roman Peace was designed to last forever. When Diocletian perfected it, its economy was so thoroughly planned and so well administered… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Ancient politicians talked incessantly about morality and virtue; our politicians talk only about business and money. One will tell you that in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“G.K. Chesterton put it well: “It was the best thing the world had yet seen, all things considered and on any large… — Rod Bennett Copy Share Image
“But such accounts as we have from the Romans were written in periods of panic, and the Roman could lie about his… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The English language is the tongue now current in England and her colonies throughout the world and also throughout the greater part… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
Ground elder, introduced by the Romans as a vegetable, is difficult to get rid of because it regrows from the smallest trace… — Monty Don Copy Share Image
People would start to follow him and they'd say: "Well why should I follow the Romans? This man says I can be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of… — Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus Copy Share Image
“Even Tacitus admitted that “whatever their origin, [the Jews’] observances are sanctioned by their antiquity,”64 and the Romans respected tradition. Christians, however,… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
“Romans is the only book in the Bible that systematically tells us of the plan of salvation. The only book. If you… — Desmond Ford Copy Share Image
“The Romans were not wiped out by the invasions of the barbarians, nor by the Christian virus, but by a more subtle… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Anyone who speaks Latin (gets egged by the populace for being a nerd) must have wondered from the start if Panem was… — Leah Wilson Copy Share Image
“The gods were gone, but imperial status remained unchanged –divinus remained a technical term meaning ‘imperial’. The emperor’s position was all the… — Chris Wickham Copy Share Image
The first Christians were formed by the first Easter into a new community that transcended all other commitments, encompassing the tax collector… — Richard Coles Copy Share Image
“The light of reason and civilization was virtually snuffed out by the Barbarian hordes who swarmed across Europe, annihilating everything the Romans… — Terry Jones Copy Share Image
“Were the Romans Christians?” I asked him, remembering my curiosity at the Roman farm. “Not always,” Ravn said. “They had their own… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“The Romans recognized potential difficulties in advance and always remedied them in time. They never let problems develop just so they could… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“ Tacitus appears to have been as great an enthusiast as Petrarch for the revival of the republic and universal empire. He… — John Adams Copy Share Image