Thought of the Day

This was written by Edward Gibbon, the author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He was at the time a Member of Parliament, and he wrote it about the insurgency across the pond -- what we have come to call the American Revolution.

"I shall scarcely give my consent to exhaust still further the finest country in the world in the prosecution of a war from whence no reasonable man entertains any hope of success. It is better to be humbled than ruined."

-- Edward Gibbon

The quote can be found in D.M. Low's biography. Page 274 of the 1937 Random House edition.

Tom Moran