Internal Downfall Quotes

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

The victor is often vanquished by his own success.