Edward Gibbon föddes den 8 mei1737 och dog den 16 januari 1794 - English historian
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A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself
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