Quote by Edward Gibbon
Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our pos

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

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History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. – Jean Paul Gaultier

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We know what works. Freedom Works. We know whats right. Freedom is right. – George H. W. Bush

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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult. – John Boehner

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