decline quotes

Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?

All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

All empires come to an end, and the American one is no exception.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.