Quotes About Roman Government

#1. The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

#2. In love there are no rules, only exceptions.

Marty Rubin

#3. I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

Matt McGorry

#4. Too much makeup on an older woman can really make you look like a freak.

Julianne Moore

#5. If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

Ed Stetzer

#6. Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821}

John Adams

#7. Government cannot kill the liberty to think. The idea, the thought, lives forever.

Roman Baldorioty De Castro

#8. ...books give a man ideas, they make him want to live.

Patricia Engel

#9. ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Thomas Bulfinch

#10. The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Edward Gibbon

#11. And I'm leaving you that plant," he lamented. "You are good with plants, aren't you?"
Great, I lied. (I could make the Congo wither and die...)

Wilton Barnhardt

#12. Plato ... says a multitude can never philosophize and hence can never recognize the seriousness of philosophy or who really philosophizes. Attempting to influence the multitude results in forced prostitution.

Allan Bloom

#13. Sometimes the ending of a documented story is really just a new beginning to the unpublished adventure yet to be discovered

Jes Fuhrmann

#14. To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies.

Richard King

#15. The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

John Strachan

#16. I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

Patrick Warburton

#17. The Roman Catholics must know as well as we do that 'Popery' when encouraged by government has always been dangerous to the liberties of the people.

Lord George Gordon

#18. Depression is pain in its purest form.

J.A. Redmerski