Roman Emperor Quotes

• Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Truth, Intelligent, Greatness

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• I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.

  Augustus

  Latin, Rome, Cities

  "The Twelve Caesars" by Suetonius, August 28, 2013.

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• I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Horse, War, Italian

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• I am the Roman Emperor, and am above grammar.

  Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor

  Grammar, Emperor, Miscellaneous

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• How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Men, Thinking, Two

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, War, Smell

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• In 302, the Roman emperor Diocletian commanded "there should be cheapness," declaring, "Unprincipled greed appears wherever our armies ... march. ... Our law shall fix a measure and a limit to this greed." The predictable result of Diocletian's food price controls were black markets, hunger and food confiscation by his soldiers. Despite the disastrous history of price controls, politicians never manage to resist tampering with prices -- that's not a flattering observation of their learning abilities.

  Walter E. Williams

  Army, Law, Greed

  "Economics for the Citizen (Part 9)". capitalismmagazine.com. January 20, 2005.

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• 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.

  Julius Evola

  Men, Doe, Slave

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• The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Lying, Latin

  "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20

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• Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fate, Unhappy, Might

  Edward Gibbon, William George Smith (1857). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.75

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

  Dan Brown

  Today, Pagan, Emperor

  Dan Brown (2016). “The Da Vinci Code (The Young Adult Adaptation)”, p.205, Delacorte Press

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• Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Rights, Political Opinions

  Winston Churchill's speech to the Scottish Unionist Association in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 25, 1924), later published in "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" edited by Robert Rhodes James (Volume 4, p. 3472), 1974.

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• 'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

  Roger Williams

  Men, Hands, Mercy

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Party, Rome

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• Thousands of experts study overbought indicators, oversold indicators,
  head-and-shoulder patterns, put-call ratios, the Fed's policy on money supply, foreign investment, the movement of the constellations through the heavens, and the moss on oak trees, and they can't predict markets with any useful consistency, any more than the gizzard squeezers could tell the Roman emperors when the Huns would attack.

  Peter Lynch

  Tree, Heaven, Consistency

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never having played golf, they never knew that strange chastening humility which is engendered by a topped chip shot. If Cleopatra had been ousted in the first round of the Ladies' Singles, we should have heard a lot less of her proud imperiousness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humility, Pride, Golf

  P. G. Wodehouse (2006). “The Heart of a Goof”

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• Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian . And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon his prophecy concerning the Messiah .

  Isaac Newton

  Christian, Hadrian, Credit

  Sir Isaac Newton (2016). “Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John”, p.17, Library of Alexandria

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

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Heaven, Endeavor, Citadels

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• A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity for a thousand years must be wrong.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Years, Christianity, Friars

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• My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Cousin, Perfect, Want

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• Las Vegas is Everymans 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 emperors orgy is now a democratic institution. 'Topless Pizza Lunch'.

  Alistair Cooke

  Food, Cutting, Lunch

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• In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.

  Sharman Apt Russell

  May, Holy, Pantheism

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• It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.

  Philip Yancey

  Baseball, Art, Father

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• Each suburban housewife spends her time presiding over a power plant sufficient to have staffed the palace of a Roman emperor with a hundred slaves.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Palaces, Slave

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