"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." | Quote by: | Edward Gibbon
(1737-1794) English historian and Member of Parliament |
Source: | The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 53 (Modern Library Ed. 1983) |
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