Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Wir Schaffen Das
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter XXVI:
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As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation. But the most experienced statesman of Europe has never been summoned to consider the propriety or the danger of admitting or rejecting an innumerable multitude of Barbarians, who are driven by despair and hunger to solicit a settlement on the territories of a civilised nation.
