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It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.

Edward Gibbon
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Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.184
It is impossible to reduce, or, at least, to hold a distant country against the wishes and efforts of its inhabitants.