Citizens Quote by Pierre Corneille

Such is the caprice of Romans... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings.

— Pierre Corneille

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour…

— Edward Gibbon

I guess that's the thing about Rome: It never changes.

— Owen Wilson

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.

— Livy

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

— Alan Watts

No prince, no king, no president has ever lived a better life than I have!

— Evel Knievel

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

— Theodore Parker

Rome alone can resist Rome.

— Pierre Corneille

There are many persons of whom it may be said that they have no other possession in the world but their character, and yet…

— Samuel Smiles

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

— Friedrich Schiller

Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

— Livy

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

— Joseph Addison