Edward Gibbon Quotes
To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.
Gibbon, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Vol. 1, W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776, p. 273.
The phrase became Coolidge's personal motto
Mormons in later years found this principle difficult to enforce where there was unemployment and workers were idle through no fault of their own. The local Mormon churches were very active in encouraging wealthier Mormons to hire those who were unemployed.
Galton’s work caused Darwin to rethink several areas.
Edward Gibbon FRS was an English historian, writer and Member of Parliament. His most important work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788 and is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its polemical criticism of organised religion.
