25 result(s) for America Endure And Falter Quotes.
""The American ideal is youth - handsome, well-groomed youth - that is our ideal.""
""America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.""
""The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.""
""The decline of a nation is presaged by a decline in its symbols.""
""Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.""
""A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.""
""When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.""
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""I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.""
""The greatest threat to American freedom is the absence of truth.""
""A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.""
""The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.""
""Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.""
""The real danger is that we allow ourselves to form habits that undermine democracy from within.""
""There is no nation so powerful, that it can exercise despotic rule over others for any long period.""
""If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.""
""The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.""
""When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.""
""The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.""
""The decay of decency in the modern age, the neglect of decorum, the failure to observe social forms, the impatience even with good manners themselves, are all remediable things.""
""Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.""
""I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.""
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""The erosion of liberty in one generation will be lamented by the next.""
""A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.""
""I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.""
""The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.""
