Roman Empire Quotes

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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. — Dave Barry
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And… — Benjamin Carson
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire. — Richard J. Maybury
We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of… — William Henry Chamberlin
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss. — Mike Myers
Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali
A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility. — Stephen Baxter
The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction multiplied… — Edward Gibbon
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms,… — Edward Everett
Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture. — Unknown Author
Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the… — Noam Chomsky
Books have survived television, radio, talking pictures, circulars (early magazines), dailies (early newspapers), Punch and Judy shows, and Shakespeare's plays. They have survived World War… — Vicki Myron
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the… — Abraham Kuyper
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do… — Barbara Tuchman
The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered… — James Risen
Protestant churches everywhere are gravitating toward union with the Roman Catholic Church. These religious movements are speeding the fulfillment of the prophecies of the resurrected… — Herbert W. Armstrong
If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself. — John Lennon

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