Famous quotes containing the words roman, army and/or late:
“The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Like an army defeated
The snow hath retreated,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)