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  • In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.

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  • Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

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    Desire  
    Edward Gibbon (1839). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.127

  • 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

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    Arms  
    Edward Gibbon (1787). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.78
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Edward Gibbon

  • Born: April 27, 1737
  • Died: January 16, 1794
  • Occupation: Historian
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