American Quote by Anonymous

Rome endured as long as there were Romans. America will endure as long as we remain American in spirit and in thought.

— David Starr Jordan

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

— Eddie Izzard

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

— James Russell Lowell

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

— Marianne Faithfull

“By virtue of its unbounded aggression, Roman imperialism was ultimately responsible for its own destruction.”

— Peter Heather

“Our founding fathers understood that republics were vulnerable; they knew that “many republics in history, such as the Roman republic, had been replaced by…

— John W. Dean

Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is a reality attested by all history that if a republic assumes imperial functions it will not remain a republic.

— Felix Morley

America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can't do what used to be done with that kind of…

— Brent Scowcroft

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

Less than two years after its founding, our Republic inflicted an ignominious defeat on the United States that had been boasting of being the…

— Kim Jong-un

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

— Taylor Caldwell