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Strongest Quotes by Edward Gibbon
- 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…
- 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.…
- Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
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- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
- When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the… — Jack Black
- I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom. — Susie Bright
- I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. — Nicolas Cage
- The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and… — John C. Calhoun
- I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward. — Jennifer Aniston
- Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea… — Emma Goldman
- It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Strongest minds are often those whom the noisy world hears least. — William Wordsworth