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GOVERNMENT AND RELIGION QUOTES: QUOTE 15 (EDWARD GIBBON)
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Edward Gibbon 1737- 1794 (English Historian)
Edward Gibbon was an English historian 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. The Decline and Fall is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organized religion.
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