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“We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries”. –Carroll Quigley

“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt for death”. –Hannibal

“Time bears away all things, even our minds”. –Virgil

“When a state after having passed with safety through many and great dangers arrives at the higher degree of power, and possesses an entire and undisputed sovereignty, it is manifest that the long continuance of prosperity must give birth to costly and luxurious manners…” –Polybius

“The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture for wild beasts to fight in”. –Voltaire

“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young”. –Augustus Cæsar