The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
The arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign hands should be curtailed, lest Rome fall.
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.
What we need now is a Treaty of the World not a Treaty of Rome.
If you look at the history of the U.S., we were an empire long before we were a nation.
Well, in 1947... in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful.
The world survived the fall of the Roman empire and will no doubt outlast our own so much more splendid civilisation.
The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.