Controlled Quote by Henry Clay

“Julius Caesar’s overthrow of the Roman Senate and Republic as an illustration of how important it is to make sure no one person is…

— Ray Dalio

“The anarch's study of the history of the caesars has more of a theoretical significance for him - it offers a sampling of how…

— Ernst Jünger

“I said that any sort of power is coercion of the people, and that the time will come when there will be no power,…

— Mikhail Bulgakov

This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a…

— William Shakespeare

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination…

— Barbara Tuchman

The orator, who may be silent without danger, may praise without difficulty and without reluctance; and posterity will confess that the character of Theodosius…

— Edward Gibbon

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: ‘Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome’.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Rome would never have need of a dictator if she had such men in office, men so united in heart, as ready to obey…

— Livy

“Crowds exhibit a docile respect for force, And are but slightly impressed by kindness, Which for them is scarcely other than a form of…

— Gustave Le Bon

“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled…

— Robert W. Chambers

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

— Samuel Johnson