I kept on reading and found a take I hadn't seen before
I have a quote from Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that I'd like to leave here:
In the various states of society, armies are recruited from very different motives. Barbarians are urged by the love of war; the citizens of a free republic may be prompted by a principle of duty; the subjects, or at least the nobles, of a monarchy, are animated by a sentiment of honor; but the timid and luxurious inhabitants of a declining empire must be allured into the service by the hopes of profit, or compelled by the dread of punishment.
happytoes 6 points 1 year ago
I kept on reading and found a take I hadn't seen before