“In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician, but of the man with the best bedside manner.”— Eric Ambler
“In these days of rebuke and blasphemy, the salt of the earth, if it hath not quite lost its savour, is become lamentably weak and vapid.”— Samuel Horsley
“The entire history of the world is a history of great powers rising and falling, and we are not exempt.”— Robert Kagan
“When the leading warriors of a nation find it advisable to mutilate their own records, it is a clear sign that the end of that nation's glory is not far distant.”— Ernest Bramah
“No nation can be destroyed from without which does not first destroy itself from within.”— Arthur Capper
“A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization.”— Aimé Césaire
“No country that has fallen from a high level of civilization has ever been able to climb back to its former state.”— Carroll Quigley
“The problem is that we've taken the 'man' out of manufacturing. We've taken the 'craft' out of craftsmanship.”— John Ratzenberger
“The decay of the creative forces in the bourgeoisie was due... to the fact that the state was becoming more and more the master of the economic and social life.”— Michael Rostovtzeff
“The degeneration of a country is not due to the foolishness of its people, but to the selfishness of its intellectuals.”— Hu Shih
“The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.”— Whittaker Chambers
“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin.”— Ignatius L. Donnelly