Beneficial Quote by Edward Gibbon

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and…

— Plutarch

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

When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as…

— Immortal Technique

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her…

— Will Durant

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

— Peter Heather

It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long…

— Edward Gibbon

I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only…

— Samuel Johnson

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

— Noah Webster

We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in…

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

“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

“The long existence of the Roman Empire had everything to do with the legions. While the legions were strong, Rome was strong. Conversely, the…

— Stephen Dando-Collins

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

— Edward Gibbon