Theodor Mommsen

"qualities -those of good soldiers but bad citizens - explain the historical fact, that the celts have shaken states everywhere,but founded none."

"..personal credit was guaranteed in the most summary and extravagant fashion; for the law entitled the creditor to treat his insolvent debtor like a thief, and granted to him in sober earnest by legis…"

"Tiberius Caesar, who meanwhile had come to reign, did not order an immediate invasion , and for the moment the anti-Roman party in Armenia was victorious; but it was not his intention to abandon the i…"

"..any revolution or any usurpation is justified before the bar of history by the exclusive ability govern, even its rigorous judgement must acknowledge that the corporation duly comprehended and worth…"

"The strict conception of the unity and omnipotence of the state in all matters pertaining to it, which was the central principle of the Italian constitutions, placed in the hands of the single preside…"

"He was a political incendiary. Not only was the hundred years' revolution which dates from him, so far as it was one man's work, the work of Gaius Gracchus, but he was above all the true founder of th…"

"Caesar did not confine himself to helping the debtor for the moment; he did what as legislator he could, permanently to keep down the fearful omnipotence of capital. First of all the great legal maxim…"

"The history of the Jewish land is as little the history of the Jewish people as the history of the States of the Church is that of the Catholics; it is just as requisite to separate the two as to cons…"