Sunday, September 13, 2009

Edward Gibbon; Rome/U.S. parallels

" . . . he valued nothing in sovereign power, except the unbounded licence of indulging his sensual appetites."

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Edward Gibbon, volume 1, p. 81. (Modern Library edition).



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