Caesar Borgia Quotes

Take care always to remember that you are a Roman.... Have a care you are not too much of a Caesar!

What millions died – that Caesar might be great!

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

Everyone has determination - it's a question of how you use it. Hers is based on power and success and conquering; she doesn't care what she has to do or who gets hurt in the process. In that way we're very, very different.

The whole world is in my hand, and I will conquer and subjugate the world.

As a young nation, pursuing industry in every channel, and adventuring commerce in every sea. It is highly important that we should not only have a pacific character, but that we should really deserve it. If we manifest an unwarrantable ambition, and a rage for conquest, we unite all the great powers of Europe against us.

No laws, human or divine, prevent the Romans from seizing and destroying enemies or friends, those near them and those far off, weak or powerful, and from considering every government that does not serve them, especially monarchies, as their enemies.

Would that the Roman people had but one neck!

Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians.

According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.

I think the parallels of a giant power with overwhelming military superiority and might, with America and Rome, it seems obvious to me.

Napoleon - the people who were becoming Napoleon's generals realized that for him, it was not about spreading freedom and revolution; it was about creating a new empire with Napoleon the dictator or the emperor.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.

And Caesar shall go forth.

When I was on Raw, I was like Julius Caesar, an all-powerful conquering hero who became so powerful that everyone around him had to conspire against him.

Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome everything in our way no matter what?" asked Wang-mu. "I think those are the pertinent virtues, yes," said Peter. "Then let's do it. That's us in spades.

Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose. Any movement of a liberal nature endangers his authority and that of his delegates on earth. One God, one King, one Pope, one master in the factory, one father-leader in the family at home.

The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

... always been a goal-oriented girl. it was both her strength and her weakness. She had a drive to completion that always gets things done, but it also made her inflexible, and stubborn.

When a leader has deployed a private army, that is one definition of a police state. Another is when the president, or a leader, has his own treasury.

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year, conquered Ethiopia, acquiring himself a colony. So people at the time really saw fascism not just as an evil but as an aggressive evil that seemed to be spreading.

Ambitious princes value inherited kingdoms not so much as conquered provinces.

Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.