Carthage Quotes

God has given man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

The Carthaginians employ foreign mercenaries; and that on the contrary the Roman armies are composed of citizens, and of the people of the country. Now in this respect the government of Rome is greatly preferable to that of Carthage. For while the Carthaginians entrust the preservation of their liberty to the care of venal troops; the Romans place all their confidence in their own bravery, and in the assistance of their allies. From hence it happens, that the Romans, though at first defeated, are always able to renew the war; and that the Carthaginian armies never are repaired without great difficulty.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

So many men, so many opinions: to each his own way.

Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.

Moderation in all things..

Obsequiousness begets friends, truth hatred.

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

Wars have been fought with borrowed money ever since Rome instituted the practice of forcing its richer citizens to loan the state money to help fund the conflict with Carthage in the third century BC.

Spanish and Dutch ships with whose help we would hasten to the banks of the Thames and destroy the new Carthage [London]

Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.

The highest law is often the greatest wrong..

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

Time removes distress.

He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed." ["Delenda est Carthago."]

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

Not a lot of people know about Tunisia. Sarah Palin thinks it's the name of one of Obama's kids.

Shall piety be a license to immoral deeds, and shall religion be regarded as affording the occasion for all riotous extravagance?

During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.

The order of things established by the Romans in Libya rested in substance on a balance of power between the Nomad kingdom of Massinissa and the city of Carthage.

My dad named me after Hannibal Barca, the Carthaginian general who attacked Rome. But nobody knows about him.

If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.