National Disintegration Quotes

It is possible for great nations to rot from within.

The Chinese people have only family and clan groups; there is no national spirit. Consequently, in spite of four hundred million people gathered together in one China, we are, in fact, but a sheet of loose sand.

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the nation than the dissolution of the Union.

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

We need a toughness. We need strength. We're not respected, as a nation anymore. We don't have that level of respect that we need. And if we don't get it back fast, we're just going to go weaker, weaker and just disintegrate.

We in Europe are confronting an unsettling feeling we never wanted to know again: how easy it is for countries to fall away from one another

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

We saw Vietnam disintegrating before our eyes—at least the structure of the state disintegrating.

There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the Western powers. It doesn't work. It needs to break up into three parts.

When the culture dies, the country dies.

If secession were allowed, the U. S. Constitution would be a mere rope of sand that would break with the first pressure.

There were lots of programs over the course of the two referendums and the general tenor of them was that if Quebec were to separate, then Canada would disintegrate.

I have met in my life two big destroyers: Gorbachev, who destroyed the Soviet Union, and Cameron, who destroyed the United Kingdom to some extent, even if there is no wave of Scotland to become independent.

President Trump is tearing apart the moral fabric of this country.

Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

If the security forces continue to be dominated as they are now by political groups or sects, then the people won't trust in them - and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name.

I yield ... to the conviction that our Constitution cannot last. The Union has been prolonged thus far by miracles ... they cannot continue.

Our country has shown a lack of will to resist its own disintegration .. . Canada is practically the only country left in the world which is a pure colony; colonial in psychology as well as in mercantile economics.

During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.