Since Our Desires Quotes
- 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… — Edward Gibbon
- A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
- Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. — Edward Gibbon