“ I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin they would never have found time to conquer the world. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today. ”
- Samuel G. Freedman- Copy
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“ Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th. ”
- Lance Morrow- Copy
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“ The lucky thing was that I was Italian; when the other Italians saw me fight back, they came to my defence. ”
- Gregory Corso- Copy
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“ The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ W our civilization could be, if not promoted, at least better endured. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ When you are at Rome live in the Roman style; when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. ”
- Saint Ambrose- Copy
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“ This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. ”
- Thomas Jefferson- Copy
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“ It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies. ”
- Edith Hamilton- Copy
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“ Gentlemen, - Farewell, and take with you into the struggle the watchword of the good old Roman - Aequanimitas. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, the amphitheatres, for wild beasts to fight in. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. Topless Pizza Lunch. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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“ Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent… ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
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“ I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church. ”
- Thomas Paine- Copy
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“ It is the custom of the Roman Church, which I unworthily serve with the help of God, to tolerate some things, to turn a blind eye to some, following the spirit of discretion rather than the rigid letter of the law. ”
- Pope Gregory VII- Copy
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“ The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy. ”
- Georg Hegel- Copy
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“ Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of the Sabines, for example, did not work themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie Does Dallas, and the monkish types who burned a million or so witches in the Middle Ages had almost certainly not come across Boobs and Buns or related periodicals. ”
- Barbara Ehrenreich- Copy
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“ We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth — all these belong to the old period… ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ Although every organized patriarchal religion works overtime to contribute its own brand of misogyny to the myth of woman-hate, woman-fear, and woman-evil, the Roman Catholic Church also carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion, and by its use of skillful and wealthy lobbies to prevent legislative change… ”
- Robin Morgan- Copy
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“ We're going to war again, another cycle. It's like a high-tech version of the Roman Empire all over again. We won't break these cycles until we start going inside and questioning our own selves - we keep looking outside for answers, when really the solution and the answers are inside us all. ”
- Dave Davies- Copy
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“ He has shaken up a diocese founded by Episcopalians of innate conservatism. They accept as a truism that whereas Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, Mormons and atheists came with the Gold Rush, they themselves waited for the Pullmans. ”
- Lawrence Davies- Copy
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