Quotes about Nation Decline

Benjamin Wittes

It is possible for great nations to rot from within.

John Adams

All great nations inevitably end up committing suicide.

Although oft quoted, what Adams actually wrote in a letter to John Taylor (15 April 1814) was: “Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.” See related quote for citation.

Linda Colley

World power is fleeting. Nations rise and fall.

Ghana Proverb

The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people.

Richard Lamm

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

Henry Ward Beecher

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell has already rung.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Abdul Baari Ath-Thubayti

The situation of our nation has changed; it's current state is that of bitter defeat and chronic weakness, which has become embedded in the thoughts of the Muslims. This means that our nation has declined from a nation of power and might to one of deep slumber.

When fundamentalist Muslims refer to the “nation” they mean Islam as a while which they believe is one nation. The do not recognize the national boundaries and preach that individual loyalty and obligation is to the religion as opposed to the country.

Austin O'Malley

Nations die first in the big cities.

Nation Decline Quotes