My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive. – Edward Gibbon
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of exalted characters. – Edward Gibbon
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. – Edward Gibbon