Roman Quotes

Roman Quote of the day

For what fortress, what city, in the wide extent of the Roman empire, can hope to exist, secure and impregnable, if it is our pleasure that it should be erased from the earth?

The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.

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.

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.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

We must now face the difficult task of moving towards a single economy, a single political entity .. For the first time since the fall of the Roman Empire we have the opportunity to unite Europe.

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

I have never been brought up a Catholic - I mean, a Roman Catholic - we're all Catholics, aren't we? We're Protestant Catholics, whether we're from Methodist or Baptist or what.

It was not the people or the Roman soldiers who put Jesus on the cross - it was your sins and my sins that made it necessary for Him to volunteer His death.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

God is the ruler of history. His times are well chosen The Roman Empire was an instrument in his hand. And so are the nations of the modern world.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

To endeavor to domineer over conscience, is to invade the citadel of heaven.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

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.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.

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.

Great empires are not maintained by timidity.

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.

I was an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Church and no priest ever laid a hand on me. That's me, always the bridesmaid.

The Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine the Great

Most readers will be shocked by the clear record of history linking Adolf Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church in a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.

Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth?

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

I was steeped in the understanding that if 'something is Roman [Catholic], it must be wrong.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

My last days at MGM were like the fall of the Roman Empire in fast motion.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

It is admitted by everybody that rights and privileges enjoyed by the Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba down to 1890, were taken away by legislation of 1890.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion

I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

Everyone outside the Roman Empire was called a barbarian. Everyone outside Obama’s empire is called a terrorist.

My philosophy is if you're happy being a born - again Christian, if you're happy be­ing a Roman Catholic, if you're happy being a Jew or Moslem ... great!! I'm happy being Ozzy.

The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

You give Italy Jesus Christ and you get the Roman Catholic Church.

The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience: you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome.