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Quote from Edward Gibbon,


"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."


By:

Edward Gibbon (more quotes by Edward Gibbon or books by/about Edward Gibbon)


(1737-1794) English historian and Member of Parliament

Source:

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 53 (Modern Library Ed. 1983)

Categories:

Arms, Constitution, Property

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