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“The essence of its failure was that it could not sustain unity. In its early stages its citizens, both patrician and plebeian, had a…

— H.G. Wells

“...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

“Roman laws tended to be long and complex - one of Rome's most enduring legacies to the world is cumbersome and tortuous legal prose.”

— Adrian Goldsworthy

“this period, they alone could elect the political officials of the Roman state; no matter how blue-blooded you were, you could only hold office…

— Mary Beard

“While the Christian and civic traditions were intrinsically suspicious of commerce, the Roman civil law was not. Rediscovered in the revival of learning in…

— Jerry Z. Muller

“Rome became a republic in 509 B.C., after driving out its king and abolishing the monarchy. The next two centuries saw a long struggle…

— Anthony Everitt

“Most Romans believed that their system of government was the finest political invention of the human mind. Change was inconceivable. Indeed, the constitution's various…

— Anthony Everitt

“The most general formulation of rights given with the natural is, in the words of Roman law, suum cuique, to each his own.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“You do remember the lessons, however. Rome—corrupt, rich, and disorganized, a republic that ruled the world yet couldn’t rule itself. Its senators fighting for…

— Ilona Andrews

“The Romans were distinguished for their genius for law-giving and government, the Greeks for philosophy, art, and mental culture generally.”

— James Elliott

“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

“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