Quotes by Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice. — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon, in his classic work on the fall of the Roman Empire, describes the Roman era's declension as a place wher — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The army is the only order of men sufficiently united to concur in the same sentiments, and powerful enough to impose th — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy — Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire