Adopted Quote by Samuel Johnson

I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman…

— Hannibal

I am a Roman citizen.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Better to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.”

— samuel johnson

Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

— Plutarch

“The first time you tried to save people, you were certain of victory?" "Yes. In my pride, I knew I could not fail." "Then,…

— Kerrelyn Sparks

Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to…

— Virgil

Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral;…

— Samuel Smiles

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

— George Farquhar

“This argument—“We are all of us carried along by a fiery zeal to recover our liberty; our arms cannot be wrested from our hands,”97—was…

— Stephen P. Halbrook

“Romans! They think women and children are fit sacrifices in war and anything less than crucifixion smacks of leniency. And they call us barbarians.…

— Manda Scott

[The] penalty of death was abolished in the Roman empire, a law of mercy most delightful to the humane theorist, but of which the…

— Edward Gibbon