History, the final judge of our deeds. ~ JFK [A]s long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. ~ Gibbon Biography of Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was an English historian […]
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On Edward Gibbon: History of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, Part I
History, the final judge of our deeds. ~ JFK [A]s long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. ~ Gibbon Biography of Edward Gibbon Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) was an English historian […]
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