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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars. -  William James Durant

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In his massive "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" Edward Gibbons, another prolific historian, also says that a major factor in the fall of Rome was the massive influx of foreigners who felt no loyalty to Rome, but only to their own group. Gibbon's analysis, too, sounds like today's headlines, though he died in 1794!