America Quote by David Starr Jordan

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.

— Eddie Izzard

The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did…

— Anonymous

Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.

— James Russell Lowell

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

— James Buchan

America now stands as the world's foremost power. We should be proud: Not since the age of the Romans have one people achieved such…

— Anonymous

Nothing lasts forever, whether it's Greece, Rome or the British Empire. It doesn't mean that America has to end. The country could be reshaped…

— Marc Lamont Hill

“I now understand that acting like a white American wasn’t just a “When in Rome do as the Romans do” cultural sensibility, but a…

— Debby Irving

Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense,…

— Clare Boothe Luce

I'll never forget Rome and what I experienced there.

— Marquinhos

What have the Romans ever done for us?

— John Cleese

“Everything American will disappear one day. More completely than that which was Greek, or Roman, or Egyptian. This is one of the ideas which…

— Henry Miller

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also…

— Harold Macmillan