"A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty. Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
-- Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 9
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