Quote by Jonathan Swift

“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

“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

“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than…

— Martin Luther

“The unwholesome-looking little moral agent of destruction exulted silently in the possession of personal prestige, keeping in check this man armed with the defensive…

— Joseph Conrad

“It was like a scene from the final hours of the Roman Empire: Everywhere you looked, some prominent politician was degrading himself in public.”

— Hunter S. Thompson

“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

“Rome seems a comfort to those with the ambitious soul of an Artist or a Conqueror.”

— Pietros Maneos

“A pair of tribunes that have wrecked fair Rome to make coals cheap - a noble memory!”

— William Shakespeare

“As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was a woman.”

— Karen Essex

“A sensibility that wails almost exclusively over the enemies of liberty seems suspect to me. Stop shaking the tyrant's bloody robe in my face,…

— Maximilien Robespierre

“suggested elegance, as if the Romans didn’t have enough on their own. Yet”

— Noel Hynd

“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