If you look at the historical record, you will find that…

Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.

— Edwin Newman

This 'historical record' will exist, flawed as it is, in hundreds of years. What will that tell the future? How accurate are we reporting…

— Eric McCormack

The reporters are needed to validate the historical record.

— Witold Walczak

“historical record.3 Such a death, some people say, hurts”

— Rinku Sen

The historical record suggests that the transition to to a new hegemon has always been attended by what I have elsewhere called hegemonic war.

— Robert Gilpin

“As an American historian, I am required to keep an accurate and truthful historical record.”

— Steven Magee

Deflation means a slowdown of income growth. Markets shrink, new capital investment and employment also taper off, so wages decline. That is what's happening…

— Michael Hudson

To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.

— Erma Bombeck

I think the rise of quantitative econometrics and a highly mathematical approach to risk management was the obverse of a decline in interest in…

— Niall Ferguson

“There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”

— Adam Smith

In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a utility device for…

— Hector Ruiz

The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not…

— Lester R. Brown

Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may…

— Andrew Weil

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

— Theodore Martin

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline…

— Robert Gilpin