“If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.”— Thomas De Quincey
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”— Will Durant
“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
“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
“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.”— Joseph Sobran
“The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.”— Whittaker Chambers
“Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well.”— Edwin Newman
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself.”— Ben Okri
“For the first time in its history, Western Civilization is in danger of being destroyed internally by a corrupt, criminal ruling elite.”— Carroll Quigley