Ancestor Quote by Hannibal

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

— Plutarch

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

— Samuel Johnson

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to…

— Virgil

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

“The entire stock of relationships which suited in war—militiae—was regarded as inadmissible and improper in peace—domi. We have the measure of how right the…

— Bertrand De Jouvenel

What have the Romans ever done for us?

— John Cleese

I am a Roman citizen.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“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

“They have plundered the world, stripping naked the land in their hunger . . . they are driven by greed, if their enemy be…

— Wayne Allyn Root

“The ancient Romans said everyone loves treason but no one the traitor.”

— Andreas Kollender

The barbarian chieftain, who defended his country against the Roman invasion, driven to the remotest extremity of Britain, and stimulating his followers to battle,…

— John Quincy Adams

“Let them cease, then, to insult the Roman empire, who pretend that they are the sons of the Church; when they see that Christ,…

— Dante Alighieri