Rome Has Grown Since Its Humble Beginnings

...war Is Just To Those For Whom It Is Necessary, And Arms Are Clear Of Impiety For Those Who Have No Hope Left But In Arms.

Men Are Seldom Blessed With Good Fortune And Good Sense At The Same Time.

That Sense – The Only True Patriotism – Comes Slowly And Springs From The Heart: It Is Founded Upon Respect For The Family And Love For The Soil. Premature ‘liberty’ Of This Kind Would Have Been A Disaster: We Should Have Been Torn To Pieces By Petty Squabbles Before We Had Ever Reached Political Maturity, Which, As Things Were, As Made Possible By The Long Quiet Years Under Monarchical Government; For It Was That Government Which, As It Were, Nursed Our Strength And Enabled Us Ultimately To Produce Sound Fruit From Liberty, As Only A Politically Adult Nation Can.

There Is Nothing Worse Than Being Ashamed Of Parsimony Or Poverty.

Valor Is The Soldier's Adornment.