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All comparisons between America's current place in the world and anything legitimately called an empire in the past reveal ignorance and confusion about any reasonable… — Donald Kagan
When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since… — Walter Russell Mead
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical… — Freeman Dyson
I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire — Mike Tyson
Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities -… — Nancy Pearcey
My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion. — Joseph Barbera
If we can redefine marriage as between two men or two women or any other way based on social pressures as opposed to between a… — Benjamin Carson
People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so… — Andrew Greeley
The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads . . . the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the… — Lyndon B. Johnson
The history of the Roman Empire is also the history of the uprising of the Empire of the Masses, who absorb and annul the directing… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our… — Winston Churchill
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon 's immense work may be stated… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. — Thomas Hobbes
I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. — Peter Jennings
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming. — Garrison Keillor
The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. — Voltaire
This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. — Voltaire
Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond
As the Roman Empire came to its close, all the old gods of the pagan world were seen as demons by the Christians who rose.… — Anne Rice
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
Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of… — Louis L'Amour
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. — Dan Quisenberry
If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due… — Cory Booker
On Earth, God has placed no more than two powers, and as there is in Heaven but one God, so is there here one Pope… — Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor

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