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Top 25 Mike Duncan Quotes (2025 Update)

Mike Duncan Quote: “Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that’s designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”

1. “Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that’s designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “Pompey snapped, “Cease quoting laws to us that have swords.”

2. “Pompey snapped, “Cease quoting laws to us that have swords.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “But this was an age when a lie was not a lie if a man had the audacity to keep asserting the lie was true.”

3. “But this was an age when a lie was not a lie if a man had the audacity to keep asserting the lie was true.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “We are silent when we see that all the money of all the nations has come into the hands of a few men; which we seem to tolerate and to permit with the more equanimity, because none of these robbers conceals what he is doing. CICERO.”

4. “We are silent when we see that all the money of all the nations has come into the hands of a few men; which we seem to tolerate and to permit with the more equanimity, because none of these robbers conceals what he is doing. CICERO.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “Reflecting on the recurrent civil wars of the Late Republic, Sallust said, “It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations, when one party desires to triumph over another by any and every means and to avenge itself on the vanquished with excessive cruelty.”

5. “Reflecting on the recurrent civil wars of the Late Republic, Sallust said, “It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations, when one party desires to triumph over another by any and every means and to avenge itself on the vanquished with excessive cruelty.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “The republic is nothing, a mere name without body or form. JULIUS CAESAR.”

6. “The republic is nothing, a mere name without body or form. JULIUS CAESAR.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “The emperor Tiberius would chide an overzealous governor: “It was the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not skin it.”

7. “The emperor Tiberius would chide an overzealous governor: “It was the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not skin it.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “According to Roman tradition Aemilianus then quoted a line from Homer: “A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain.” Aemilianus knew that no power endures indefinitely, that all empires must fall, and that there is nothing mortals can do about it.”

8. “According to Roman tradition Aemilianus then quoted a line from Homer: “A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish, And Priam and his people shall be slain.” Aemilianus knew that no power endures indefinitely, that all empires must fall, and that there is nothing mortals can do about it.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.”

9. “The winds of change are blowing at the RNC.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “Those who make themselves up for political competition or the race for glory, as actors do for the stage, must necessarily regret their action, since they must either serve those whom they think they should rule or offend those whom they wish to please.”

10. “Those who make themselves up for political competition or the race for glory, as actors do for the stage, must necessarily regret their action, since they must either serve those whom they think they should rule or offend those whom they wish to please.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “Saturninus, on the other hand, was the first to show the demagogues of the future generations just how far cynically manipulated mob violence could push a man’s career forward.”

11. “Saturninus, on the other hand, was the first to show the demagogues of the future generations just how far cynically manipulated mob violence could push a man’s career forward.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “The plight of the dispossessed citizens might not have been so dire had they been allowed to transition into the labor force of the commercial estates. But the continuous run of successful foreign wars brought slaves flooding into Italy by the hundreds of thousands.”

12. “The plight of the dispossessed citizens might not have been so dire had they been allowed to transition into the labor force of the commercial estates. But the continuous run of successful foreign wars brought slaves flooding into Italy by the hundreds of thousands.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “As Plutarch later wrote, “It is a most agreeable spectacle for a Roman soldier when he sees a general eating common bread in public, or sleeping on a simple pallet, or taking a hand in the construction of some trench or palisade. For they have not so much admiration for those leaders who share honor and riches with them as for those who take part in their toils and dangers.” Marius personified this type of leadership.”

13. “As Plutarch later wrote, “It is a most agreeable spectacle for a Roman soldier when he sees a general eating common bread in public, or sleeping on a simple pallet, or taking a hand in the construction of some trench or palisade. For they have not so much admiration for those leaders who share honor and riches with them as for those who take part in their toils and dangers.” Marius personified this type of leadership.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “A city for sale and doomed to speedy destruction if it finds a purchaser.”51.”

14. “A city for sale and doomed to speedy destruction if it finds a purchaser.”51.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “A raging fire naturally commands attention, but to prevent future fires, one must ask how the fire started.”

15. “A raging fire naturally commands attention, but to prevent future fires, one must ask how the fire started.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “Audacity combined with weakness should be called madness.”

16. “Audacity combined with weakness should be called madness.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “In an apocryphal but telling story, a wealthy noblewoman once showed off a set of beautiful jewels to Cornelia, who herself pointed to Tiberius and his younger brother Gaius and said, “Those are my jewels.”3.”

17. “In an apocryphal but telling story, a wealthy noblewoman once showed off a set of beautiful jewels to Cornelia, who herself pointed to Tiberius and his younger brother Gaius and said, “Those are my jewels.”3.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “The commander in chief categorically rejected becoming a dictator, staging a coup, or ruling by force. This powerful example of political self-abnegation was one of the most important virtues Washington modeled for Lafayette.”

18. “The commander in chief categorically rejected becoming a dictator, staging a coup, or ruling by force. This powerful example of political self-abnegation was one of the most important virtues Washington modeled for Lafayette.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “These echoes could be mere coincidence, of course, but the great Greek biographer Plutarch certainly believed it possible that “if, on the other hand, there is a limited number of elements from which events are interwoven, the same things must happen many times, being brought to pass by the same agencies.”

19. “These echoes could be mere coincidence, of course, but the great Greek biographer Plutarch certainly believed it possible that “if, on the other hand, there is a limited number of elements from which events are interwoven, the same things must happen many times, being brought to pass by the same agencies.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “In the final analysis, Sulla’s attempt to restore the Republic was doomed because he misdiagnosed the problem.”

20. “In the final analysis, Sulla’s attempt to restore the Republic was doomed because he misdiagnosed the problem.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “Thanks to these endless wars, lower-class families were “burdened with military service and poverty,” and their property would fall into a state of terminal neglect.”

21. “Thanks to these endless wars, lower-class families were “burdened with military service and poverty,” and their property would fall into a state of terminal neglect.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “As the Romans held an implacable hatred of kings, the Senate authorized any citizen, at any time, to kill another citizen caught seeking regal power. For nearly five hundred years Roman dictators never failed to lay down their power.25.”

22. “As the Romans held an implacable hatred of kings, the Senate authorized any citizen, at any time, to kill another citizen caught seeking regal power. For nearly five hundred years Roman dictators never failed to lay down their power.25.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “Polybius argued that beyond their obvious military prowess, the Romans lived under a political constitution that had achieved the perfect balance between the three classical forms of government: monarchy – rule by the one; aristocracy – rule by the few; and democracy – rule by the many.22.”

23. “Polybius argued that beyond their obvious military prowess, the Romans lived under a political constitution that had achieved the perfect balance between the three classical forms of government: monarchy – rule by the one; aristocracy – rule by the few; and democracy – rule by the many.22.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “Sulla later thanked the slave and said the man “deserved freedom in return for his services in giving information about the enemy.” But as soon as the manumission was complete Sulla “decreed that he should be hurled from the Tarpeian Rock because he had betrayed his master.”

24. “Sulla later thanked the slave and said the man “deserved freedom in return for his services in giving information about the enemy.” But as soon as the manumission was complete Sulla “decreed that he should be hurled from the Tarpeian Rock because he had betrayed his master.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations, when one party desires to triumph over another by any and every means and to avenge itself on the vanquished with excessive cruelty.” Accepting defeat was no longer an option.”

25. “It is this spirit which has commonly ruined great nations, when one party desires to triumph over another by any and every means and to avenge itself on the vanquished with excessive cruelty.” Accepting defeat was no longer an option.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “AFTER FAILING TO avoid senatorial opposition with a generous bill, Tiberius and his Claudian backers decided the best play was to rally his popular base by making villains of the rich.”

26. “AFTER FAILING TO avoid senatorial opposition with a generous bill, Tiberius and his Claudian backers decided the best play was to rally his popular base by making villains of the rich.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “According to Aristotelian political theory, each form of government had its merits but inevitably devolved into its most oppressive incarnation until it was overthrown. Thus a monarchy would become a tyranny, only to be overthrown by an enlightened aristocracy, which slid to repressive oligarchy until popular democracy overwhelmed the oligarchs, opening the door for anarchy, and so back to the stabilizing hand of monarchy again.”

27. “According to Aristotelian political theory, each form of government had its merits but inevitably devolved into its most oppressive incarnation until it was overthrown. Thus a monarchy would become a tyranny, only to be overthrown by an enlightened aristocracy, which slid to repressive oligarchy until popular democracy overwhelmed the oligarchs, opening the door for anarchy, and so back to the stabilizing hand of monarchy again.”

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Mike Duncan Quote: “Cicero later denounced the project as an obvious handout to secure political support and said that better men at the time “resisted it because they thought that its effect would be to lead the common people away from industry to idleness.”

28. “Cicero later denounced the project as an obvious handout to secure political support and said that better men at the time “resisted it because they thought that its effect would be to lead the common people away from industry to idleness.”

— Mike Duncan

Mike Duncan Quote: “Envoys met him on the road and asked him why he was marching with armed forces against his country. “To deliver her from tyrants,” he replied. APPIAN.”

29. “Envoys met him on the road and asked him why he was marching with armed forces against his country. “To deliver her from tyrants,” he replied. APPIAN.”

— Mike Duncan

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