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

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

Edward Gibbon
Courage, Freedom, Ends

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

Edward Gibbon
Freedom, Desire, Liberty
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

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

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