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Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are committed to an unwieldy multitude.

Edward Gibbon
Exercise, Government, History
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.32

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

Edward Gibbon
Writing, Exercise, Choices
Edward Gibbon (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writing Composed by Himself, Illustrated from His Letters with Occasional Notes and Narrative”, p.92

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

Edward Gibbon
Exercise, Men, Land
Edward Gibbon (1828). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.331

The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

Edward Gibbon
Plato, School, Exercise
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1”, p.55

The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession of a throne could never yet afford a lasting satisfaction to an ambitious mind.

Edward Gibbon
Exercise, Greatness, Mind
Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.149

The laws of war, that restrain the exercise of national rapine and murder, are founded on two principles of substantial interest: the knowledge of the permanent benefits which may be obtained by a moderate use of conquest, and a just apprehension lest the desolation which we inflict on the enemy's country may be retaliated on our own. But these considerations of hope and fear are almost unknown in the pastoral state of nations.

Edward Gibbon
Country, War, Exercise
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.161

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