Romans Quotes

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. (Livy)
If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world. View quote
Heinrich Heine
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. View quote
Voltaire
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, Yes but if we have such another victory, we are undone. View quote
Francis Bacon
...a state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. View quote
Harry Seidler
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time that they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind. View quote
Thomas Paine
We're living in a Dark Age of macroeconomics. Remember, what defined the Dark Ages wasn't the fact that they were primitive - the Bronze Age was primitive, too. What made the Dark Ages dark was the fact that so much knowledge had been lost, that so much known to the Greeks and Romans had been forgotten by the barbarian kingdoms that followed. View quote
Paul Krugman
Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans! (Augustus)
That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans. View quote
José Ortega y Gasset
It turns out that the Romans were champs in making peace. Their motto was that if you want to make peace, you need to prepare for war. They knew game theory. View quote
Robert Aumann
The Germans will make a few scattered attacks, then go away. The Romans will enjoy a fine September. View quote
Pietro Badoglio
'T 's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul I think the Romans call it stoicism. View quote
Joseph Addison
Everybody blames the Jews for killing Christ, and then the Jews try to pass it off on the Romans. I'm one of the few people that believe it was the blacks. View quote
Sarah Silverman
Let Revolutionists be Romans, not Tatars. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
Long before the empire had reached its greatest extent, the Romans were bored by it. View quote
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne
I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honour and empire. My ancestors yielded to Roman valour. I am endeavouring that others, in their turn, will be obliged to yield to my good fortune, and my valour. View quote
Hannibal
Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous. View quote
Plutarch
We find that the Romans owed the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observance of discipline in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war. (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
The best teachers, one hopes, don't shout at their students - because they are skilled at wooing as well as demanding the best efforts of others. For the ancient Greeks and Romans, this wooing was a sufficiently fine art in itself to be the central focus of education. View quote
Tom Chatfield
How nice of Acheron to send us a playmate. (Daimon) Play is for children and dogs. Now that you have identified which category you fall into, I'll show you what Romans do to rabid dogs. (Valerius) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon