Quotes by Gibbon, Edward

Style is the image of character. >>

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious histor >>

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. >>

Quotations about Public

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the concl >>

If you have got the public in the palm of your hand, you can be sure t >>

The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to th >>

The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.

Gibbon, Edward