Forty Quote by Edward Gibbon

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the…

— Edward Gibbon

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

— Goldwin Smith

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?

— Camille Paglia

Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few…

— Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

— Edward Gibbon

“The inescapable truth... is that, within a miraculously short period of five years, your Government reduced this country from a position of world supremacy…

— Robert Boothby

“Contemporaries struggled to make sense of what, to them, was the complete collapse of the world order. “Why does [God] allow us to be…

— Peter Frankopan

The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the…

— Edward Gibbon

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible…

— Lord Acton

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell

“Saint Paul was proud of his Roman citizenship, and his letter to various Christian communities in the empire presupposed an effective communications system that…

— Norman F. Cantor