Famous quotes containing the words gibbon and/or behavior:
“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”
—Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)
“Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.”
—Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)