Believe Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

All things may be bought in Rome with money.

— Juvenal

History teaches us that the capacity of things to get worse is limitless. Roman history suggests that the short, happy life of the American…

— Chalmers Johnson

The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

— Ron Paul

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with…

— Juan Enriquez

Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

— Dalton Camp

The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes.

— Noah Webster

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

— Peter Cundill

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

— Ludwig von Mises

Look at any financial institution, at any bank. They're all photocopies of each other. There's no diversity of institutions and even less diversity of…

— Bernard Lietaer

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

— Juvenal

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