Logo
Quote by Edward Gibbon
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause

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

Other quotes by Edward Gibbon

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

Category:
Learning
Author
Edward Gibbon
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. – James Madison

Category:
War

War: a massacre of people who dont know each other for the profit of people who know each other but dont massacre each other. – Paul Valery

Category:
War

Let us not be deceived we are today in the midst of a cold war. – Bernard Baruch

Category:
War

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. – Lester B. Pearson

Category:
War

Random Quotes

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all. – Dorothy Day

Category:
Attitude

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Health

Then I was lucky I met with my future husband, and I started new life with my husband, and I was happy again. He was a musician. I start to travel with him through Europe also and around the former Soviet Union. – Olga Korbut

Category:
Travel

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, its essential to be free. – Manuel Puig

Category:
Imagination