“No country that has fallen from a high level of civilization has ever been able to climb back to its former state.”— Carroll Quigley
“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
“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
“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
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”— Ariel Durant
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”— Will Durant
“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
“In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved; while everything solid and valuable sinks to the bottom, and is lost forever.”— Junius