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A little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance. — Ruth Downie

Rhino-mounted Bantu shock troops could have overthrown the Roman Empire. It never happened. — Jared Diamond

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. — Richard J. Maybury

Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the Roman Empire. — Alejandro C. Estrada

The Church was spread throughout the entire Roman Empire before a single book of the New Testament was written. — Fulton J. Sheen

Good clothes, when put to the test, survive a change in fortune, as a Roman arch survives the luxury of departed empire. — Arnold Bennett

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. — Peter Jennings

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball. — Dan Quisenberry

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. — Voltaire

The Rome he has been trained to serve, the Rome of Augustus and Germanicus, was gone. In its place stood Neronopolis, ruled by a megalomaniac brat. — James Romm

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

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

The Roman Empire, Vikings, British, Spanish, Portuguese,... all raped women, but it always seems worse when done to us. — Daniel Marques

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip. — Ruth Downie

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

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

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. — John Gresham Machen

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. — J.I. Packer

I've been listening to how the Roman Empire fell and all I can say is, it didn't fall nearly fast enough!-Iggy — James Patterson

To break up the Roman Empire and to give a new order to the world is the first and principle historical task of the Germans. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The United States as a whole is larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion. — Thomas Sowell

Such is life in the Roman Empire, which has begun its slow decline into ruin. There is little justice or nobility among — Bill O'Reilly

[Instead] of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long. — Edward Gibbon

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire — Mike Tyson

The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation. — James Buchan

The ISI may well be Pakistan's answer to the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire: it — Shashi Tharoor

In retrospect, the highlight of dating him had been free coffee and a particularly compelling discussion on the fall of the Roman Empire. — Richelle Mead

It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made. — Neel Burton

There were as many Jews as Greeks in the Roman empire, and a higher proportion of them were literate. — Paul Johnson

So much for the Emperor; the rest of this history must deal with the Monster.
- IV:22 — Suetonius

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

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

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. — John Lennon

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected. — Mark Rutte

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800. — Robert Benchley

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