Core Quote by Benjamin Carson

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture…

— Kit Harington

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

— Robert Payne

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years…

— Winston Churchill

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and…

— Edward Gibbon

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her…

— Will Durant

Rome did not create a great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed them. If at first you…

— Quentin Crisp

We forget how the Greeks and Romans prevailed magnificently in a barbaric world and how that triumph ended-how a slackness and softness finally overcame…

— Thomas S. Monson

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

— Goldwin Smith

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit…

— Edward Gibbon

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

— James Buchan

Rome didn't create an Empire by holding meetings - they did it by killing their enemies.

— Chris Johnson

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell