Augustus Caesar:

I found the city of Rome, which was not adorned as her majesty demanded, to be too small for the empire; so I extended her borders.

— Augustus Caesar Ancient

First Roman Emperor

Attributed, a paraphrase of his sentiments about Rome's expansion

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