Destroyers and Benefactors

As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters. 

Edward Gibbon (Unsourced)

Edward Gibbon is most famous for his work The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 
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