Air Quote by Garrison Keillor

“What are we waiting for, assembled in the forum? The barbarians are due here today. Why isn't anything happening in the senate? Why do…

— Constantine Cavafy

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

— Billy Corgan

If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:…

— Edward Gibbon

Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard attained was…

— Adolf Hitler

The barbarians of Germany had felt, and still dreaded, the arms of the young Caesar; his soldiers were the companions of his victory; the…

— Edward Gibbon

Obama, who is becoming more and more preacher-like, wants to be the Punisher-in-Chi ef of the Western World, the Avenger-in-Chie f. There is something…

— Robert Fisk

But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants; and the…

— Edward Gibbon

The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight…

— Edward Gibbon

The union of the Roman empire was dissolved; its genius was humbled in the dust; and armies of unknown barbarians, issuing from the frozen…

— Edward Gibbon

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

— Robert Fisk

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire

— Mike Tyson

The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may…

— Edward Gibbon