Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.” ~ Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) English historian and Member of ParliamentSource: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 53 (Modern Library Ed. 1983)