Edward Gibbon Quote

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no attachment except to the person of their benefactor.

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

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no...

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no...

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no...

Suspicious princes often promote the last of mankind, from a vain persuasion that those who have no dependence except on their favor will have no...