Ancient Quote by Noah Webster

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

— Goldwin Smith

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

Whatever evils either reason or declamation have imputed to extensive empire, the power of Rome was attended with some beneficial consequences to mankind; and…

— Edward Gibbon

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

“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

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself…

— Joseph Addison

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

— H. G. Wells

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George

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

“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

“Rome increased its per capita income by exploiting its conquered territories, not by increasing its productive potential. Rome expanded but did not grow.”

— Edward A. Hudson

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

— Goldwin Smith