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


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

Edward Gibbon Quotes

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

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

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

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