Age Quote by Lyndon B. Johnson

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been…

— Andre Malraux

The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were.…

— Benjamin Carson

Only by establishing military supremacy were the European and North American colonizers able to eliminate the crafts and industries of Third World peoples, control…

— Michael Parenti

In the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s, authoritarian movements swept the most powerful countries in the world, from Germany to Italy, Spain to Japan -…

— Colin Allred

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing…

— John Perkins

History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated…

— Lionel Shriver

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

— Arthur Erickson

Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it.

— Robert Payne

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.

— James Buchan

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

— Goldwin Smith

A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her…

— Will Durant