Arrogance Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled,…

— Taylor Caldwell

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be…

— Ross Perot

The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.

— Taylor Caldwell

If some lose their whole fortunes, they will drag many more down with them . . . believe me that the whole system of…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to…

— Anonymous

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

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

Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and…

— Plutarch

“The failure of the roman system to furnish decent minimal standards for the mass of people was a fundamental cause of instability, both political…

— H.J. Haskell

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destruction…

— Edward Gibbon

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

— Goldwin Smith

“The central government was a despotism tempered by military rebellion and assassination and replacement of one scurvy lot of ruling dynasts by another. But…

— Norman F. Cantor