Theodor Mommsen

"The party of reform emerges, as it were, personified in Marcus Porcius Cato . Cato, the last statesman of note belonging to that earlier system which restricted its ideas to Italy and was averse to un…"

"Catilina in particular was one of the most nefarious men in that nefarious age. His villanies belong to the criminal records, not to history; but his very outward appearance - the pale countenance, th…"

"...public opinion justly recognized in both, above all things, the bankruptcy of the government,which, in its progressive development placed in jeopardy first the honour and now the very existence of …"

"Revolutions have nowhere ended, and least of all in ROme, without demanding a certain number of victims, who under forms more or less borrowed from justice atone fro the fault of defeat as though it w…"

"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…"

"..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…"

"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…"

"This was itself hazardous; but the smallness of the number might be in some degree compensated by the tried valour of the army consisting throughout of veterans. A much worse circumstance was the temp…"