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In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury  (Roman Empire Quotes) The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss  (Roman Empire Quotes) It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy. Power is enough. Only the weak rely on diplomacy The Roman Empire had no need for diplomacy. Nor does the United States  (Roman Empire Quotes) The United States is now relearning an ancient lesson, dating back to the Roman Empire. Brutalizing an enemy only serves to brutalize the army ordered to do it. Torture corrodes the mind of the torturer  (Roman Empire Quotes) If I’d lived in Roman times, I’d have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself  (Roman Empire Quotes) Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire  (Roman Empire Quotes) The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly  (Roman Empire Quotes) Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church  (Roman Empire Quotes) People came into the Church in the Roman Empire because the Church was so good-Catholics were so good to one another, and they were so good to pagans, too. High-pressure evangelization strikes me as an attempt to deprive people of their freedom of choice  (Roman Empire Quotes) The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of a great, but of a decaying society. Historians know that both phenomena were especially marked in the declining eras of the Roman Empire in the West and of its successor state, the Eastern or Byzantine Empire  (Roman Empire Quotes) His manners were less pure, but his character was equally amiable with that of his father. Twenty-two acknowledged concubines, and a library of sixty-two thousand volumes, attested the variety of his inclinations, and from the productions which he left behind him, it appears that the former as well as the latter were designed for use rather than ostentation  (Roman Empire Quotes) Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman Empire’s did. The Romans had gladiators and Christian-hungry lions and that sort of thing. We have MTV  (Roman Empire Quotes) I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion’s relationship to politics  (Roman Empire Quotes) His [Andy warhol] films were way ahead of the times...and I’m not suggesting this has all necessarily been a good thing for America, mind you. I kind of think we’re all in a really big mess, kind of like the end days of the Roman Empire  (Roman Empire Quotes) The eastern part of the Roman Empire spoke mostly Greek, and the western parts spoke mostly Latin. So very soon, you begin getting different emphases between the Eastern church and the Western church  (Roman Empire Quotes) The Roman Empire came to an end, but the Roman people didn’t come to an end, so I see the American Empire coming to an end just as other empires have come to an end.  (Roman Empire Quotes) Today, on our own turf, we face pagan ignorance about God every bit as deep as that which the early church faced in the Roman Empire.  (Roman Empire Quotes) Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened  (Roman Empire Quotes) Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the Earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind  (Roman Empire Quotes) Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism  (Roman Empire Quotes) It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming  (Roman Empire Quotes) Rhino - mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened  (Roman Empire Quotes) My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion  (Roman Empire Quotes) The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire  (Roman Empire Quotes) The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country  (Roman Empire Quotes) But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous  (Roman Empire Quotes) There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times  (Roman Empire Quotes) Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude  (Roman Empire Quotes) On the slightest touch the unsupported fabric of their pride and power fell to the ground. The expiring senate displayed a sudden lustre, blazed for a moment, and was extinguished for ever  (Roman Empire Quotes) Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed their ancient freedom  (Roman Empire Quotes)
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