[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.


The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (ed. 1871)

Edward Gibbon Quotes

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.