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“A state cannot be enlarged without injustice” - among you Romans and for your benefit was that saying born.

And this virtue is yours: one which embraces all the virtues: avarice, the humbling of rulers, oath-breaking, and all your other virtues. [Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans, Book I, chap.13: 119]

We have wished our enemies to be friends, allies, citizens.

Behold, gradually the citizenship was given to all who lived in the Roman world. Behold: Rome, the common fatherland. O the immeasurable glory of Roman citizenship! [Alberico Gentili, The Wars of the Romans, Book II, chap.13: 347]

Ce retour aux droits sacres de l,humanite etait digne d'un prince qui merita le titre de pere de la patrie, et, suivant Pausanias, eut du etre appele le pere des hommes [Opinion du tribun Malherbe, contre le projet, Seance du 27 frimaire an X - 18 Decembre 1801, in Fenet 1837, t.7: 392]

Il ιι'est point, dans toute l'histoire, d'Etat plus etroitement egolste que la cite romaine; point de conquete ou il ait ete employe plus de violence et de perfidie que la conquete romaine; mais lorsque le monde eut ete soumis par les armes, il prit conscience de son unite... [Lavisse 1890: V]

Si quelqu'un dans la longue serie des imperatores augusti ressemble aux vrais Cesars, ce n'est pas Otton, ni Conrad, ni Frederic, c'est Napoleon [Lavisse 1890: XXXII]

Le droit civil, [qui] est le droit propre a chaque nation et qui la distingue des autres [.][Dis- cours prononce par M. Gary, 17 March 1803, in Fenet 1836, t.7, 642].

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Source: Ando Clifford (ed.). Citizenship and Empire in Europe, 200-1900: Antonine Constitution after 1800 Years. Franz Steiner Verlag,2016. — 261 p.. 2016

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