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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… — 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… — Richard J. Maybury
• We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word .… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Stephen Baxter
• The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of… — Edward Gibbon
• In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, -… — Edward Everett

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