Firm foundation Quote by Dániel Berzsenyi

“...when all the bullshit about rational, divinely inspired social order is put to one side, Roman law was all about defining and protecting property…

— Peter Heather

“I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Peter Heather

“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than…

— Martin Luther

“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of…

— Moss Cass

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger . . . they are driven by greed, if their enemy be…

— Wayne Allyn Root

“But there are no more nations beyond us; nothing is there but waves and rocks, and the Romans, more deadly still than these -…

— Tacitus

“Enthusiasts for empire argued that Rome had a civilizing mission; that because her values and institutions were self-evidently superior to those of barbarians, she…

— Tom Holland

“The narrow policy of preserving, without any foreign mixture, the pure blood of the ancient citizens, had checked the fortune, and hastened the ruin,…

— Edward Gibbon