A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute..

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally fals….

An extensive empire must be supported by a refined system of policy and oppression; in the centre, an absolute power, prompt in action and rich in re….

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times..

The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still thre….

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects..

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect..

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ev….

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself..

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes..

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from hi….

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the c….

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius..

If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he wou….

In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the ….

So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious….

It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption. This long p….

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind..

The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the cause of the destru….

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war..

In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom..