George F. Hoar: “If I could believe that any exigency in public affairs called for me, then my personal wishes would be subservient--but…”

This Treaty would make us a vulgar, common place empire, controlling subject races and vassal states, in which one class must forever rule and other classes forever obey.

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness…

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.