Carthage Quote by Plutarch

“For he (Cato) gives his opinion as if he were in Plato's Republic, not in Romulus' cesspool.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“He likewise directed, “that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence…

— Jonathan Swift

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the…

— Milan Kundera

“Carthago delenda est”

— Cato

“Come to think of it, the Senate sessions had been quieting for a while. The boisterous beginnings she remembered as a tiny child had…

— Claudia Gray

“[The Senate] ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”

— James Madison

“Then, too, the senate has a rule that no point is discussed on the same day it is brought up, but rather it is…

— Thomas More

“A lie,” he was once heard to declare on the floor of the Senate, “is an abomination unto the Lord and an ever-present help…

— David McCullough

His sentences didn't seem to have any verbs, which was par for a politician. All nouns, no action.

— Jennifer Crusie

“My predecessor in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, used to say, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“And what did it matter that Brutus had killed a tyrant? Tyranny still existed in every heart and Rome only existed in Brutus.”

— Anonymous

[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he…

— Calvin Coolidge