Quotes About The 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. 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

#4. 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

#5. My job driving the ambulance was not very severe, you did what you were supposed to do. That was my main job.

Frank Buckles

#6. 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

#7. Will you do me the honour of lunching with me on Wednesday?" "With pleasure." I had as much desire to eat with him as I had to hang myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

Marc Bolan

#9. Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.

Gary Johnson

#10. Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. We've come a long way, from where we've been. I'll tell you all about it when I see you again.

Vin Diesel

#12. I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.

Kaya Scodelario

#13. 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

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

Theodor Mommsen

#15. Everything has been created twice once on a mental plain and once on a physical plain.

Bob Proctor