Quotes About Roman Republic

#1. The Roman Republic would soon be destroyed by the unfettered energy of its great men. The redeeming feature of this aristocracy and

Will Durant

#2. The Roman Empire, born out the Roman Republic, with its ideas of democracy among a certain group of wealthy men (no vote for men without land -as with our Founding Fathers- and certainly no vote for women and slaves. Why are democracies built on top of one form of slavery or another?)

Tina Packer

#3. A nation can be one or the other, a democracy or an imperialist, but it can't be both. If it sticks to imperialism, it will, like the old Roman Republic, on which so much of our system was modeled, like the old Roman Republic, it will lose its democracy to a domestic dictatorship.

Chalmers Johnson

#4. It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself.

Bill Munson

#5. In hard times, no less than in prosperity, preserve equanimity.

Horace

#6. The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.

Henry James Sumner Maine

#7. Always been, and the safety of the Republic would be assured. This was a presumption buried deep in the soul of every Roman.

Tom Holland

#8. You are my favorite thing to do. ~ Oliver Sand

Chris Kuhn

#9. A policy of peaceful coexistence between Israel and Palestine is the foundation of the tower, which will be built for the future; and visible from afar, the tower will be a non-violent symbol forever lasting peace.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#10. Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."

Gore Vidal

#11. In the Roman commonwealth, even on the conversion of the monarchy into a republic, the old was as far as possible retained.

Theodor Mommsen

#12. I'm going to publicly challenge the biggest names in religion to repent and give back the money they've ripped off from the poor.

Richard Rossi

#13. Live with no time-out.

Simone De Beauvoir