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Romans, never forget that government is your medium! Be this your art:-to practice men in habit of peace, generosity to the conquered, and firmness against aggressors.

Virgil

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

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones.

William Shakespeare

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

Heinrich Heine

You will find the Americans much like the Greeks found the Romans: great, big, vulgar, bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle, with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.

Harold Macmillan

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.

Pyrrhus

Caesar was frightening to be around ... if ever anyone was born to be a king, he was. But they (the Romans) had an ancestral fear of kings, similar to the American fear to a degree ? pride in their liberty.

Bruno Heller

In the last 20 years, the country has undertaken the most extensive building and rebuilding of its civil infrastructure since the Romans.

Terence Riley

The Romans perfected the acquisition of power. But they fought for survival. ... It was never written that they would rule the roost. They had to fight to get there.

Jonathan Stamp

When in Rome, live as the Romans do: when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose

We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.

Franklin Graham

We had a little talk (about Gentry's first half) during halftime. We think Roman's one of the best players in the state, and players like that don't score one point in a half.

Jeff Vanderloo

MANES, n. The immortal parts of dead Greeks and Romans. They were in a state of dull discomfort until the bodies from which they had exhaled were buried and burned; and they seem not to have been particularly happy afterward.

Ambrose Bierce

I know Roman's out, but at the same time, I'm not even worried about Mark. No disrespect to him. I'm worried about what I have to do.

Earl Little