Edward Gibbon Quote

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume the First (ed. 1776)

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.

The possession and the enjoyment of property are the pledges which bind a civilised people to an improved country.