Famous quotes containing the words roman and/or statesman:
“The most Christian France is the sole wet-nurse to the Roman court.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)