Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world
Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?
Don't tell me violence doesn't solve anything. Look at Carthage.
He (Cato) never gave his opinion in the Senate upon any other point whatever, without adding these words, "And, in my opinion Carthage should be destroyed. " ["Delenda est Carthago. "]
Moreover, I consider that Carthage should be destroyed.
Furthermore, I think Carthage must be destroyed.