"In the end, they wanted security more than……" — Edward Gibbon
"In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom."
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Edward Gibbon
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95 Quotes by Edward Gibbon
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious…
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory,…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and…
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The first and indispensable requisite of happiness is a clear conscience.
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