Top 23 Quotes About The Decline Of A Nation

#1. You've given aid and they've received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?

Marcus Aurelius

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#2. We've been an empire in decline since I can remember," Ketchum said bluntly; he wasn't kidding. "We are a lost nation, Danny. Stop farting around.

John Irving

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#3. India is a confused nation today. It does not understand its nature, which seems to be a hotchpotch of the masculine and feminine way. But if you force me to choose, then I would state that, at this point in time, we're a feminine culture in decline.

Amish Tripathi

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#4. The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#5. The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.

John McGraw

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#6. Margaret Thatcher - a woman I greatly admire - once said that she was not content to manage the decline of a great nation. Neither am I. I am prepared to lead the resurgence of a great nation.

Carly Fiorina

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#7. The fundamentals for me are character and conflict. I put character first because readers will be indifferent to conflict if they are indifferent to the character who is experiencing it.

Lynn Coady

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#8. In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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#9. To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable.

Christian D. Larson

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#10. We have been flooded with postal cards from all over the United States and several parallel universes. Just a quick glance though these cards is enough to remind you why this great nation, despite all the talk of decline, still leads the world in tranquilizer consumption.

Dave Barry

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#11. It could fairly be said that America, during the Bush years, has entered an Age of Denial - arguably the first stage of a nation's decline.

Graydon Carter

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#12. Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to select Godly leaders our destiny will surely be as that of the Roman Empire.

Ronald Reagan

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#13. The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of pride over and above anything they had had since the decline of the movement of Marcus Garvey.

John Henrik Clarke

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#14. ...the Supreme Court made several liberal decisions in the 1970s, indicating the moral decline of the nation as a whole.

Kurt Grussendorf

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#15. It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

Nolan Ryan

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#16. We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

Franz Von Papen

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#17. Do you have children? she asked.
No.
Why?
The man answered that one had to have faith in the world to have children.

Alessandro Baricco

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#18. There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

Adam Smith

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#19. Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order to live. Should we withhold the medicine? No. We are not wrong. We did not seek election and win in order to manage the decline of a great nation.

Margaret Thatcher

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#20. Art is always the index of social vitality, the moving finger that records the destiny of a civilization. A wise statesman should keep an anxious eye on this graph, for it is more significant than a decline in exports or a fall in the value of a nation's currency.

Herbert Read

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#21. The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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#22. In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

George Berkeley

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#23. This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.

Wade Boggs

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