"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 Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."
— Edward Gibbon
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Thank you! I've been contemplating looking for a line about the fall of the Romans, given the sad state of things here in our very ill country, but here I find one posted by you.
Any other writer's that have wrote on this subject, I'd love to know.
James in Minnesota under siege
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