The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. — Howard Baker Copy Share Image
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity. — Warren De la Rue Copy Share Image
You can't just become complacent or lazy, or then the decline happens. — Jinder Mahal Copy Share Image
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
So I think we shouldn't be overly concerned about the decline in personal saving at this particular moment and time, but it's… — Bruce Bartlett Copy Share Image
He played with enormous energy and great fighting spirit. Offering him a draw was a waste of time. He would decline it… — Lubomir Kavalek Copy Share Image
To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children. — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is… — Steve Pavlina Copy Share Image
There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are… — Kenneth Rogoff Copy Share Image
Try to remain truthful. The power of truth never declines. Force and violence may be effective in the short term, but in… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together,… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
What happened was that for every $100 of money, by which I mean the cash that people keep in their pockets, and… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the organ its reverberations faded… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, if we don't cut spending we will be bankrupt. Yes, the medicine is harsh, but the patient requires it in order… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels -… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
Perhaps Western civilization is in a post-decline phase, or maybe the decline is just taking a really long time, like the Roman… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
Markets are not, in my opinion, a full solution to any problem. The obvious problem they don't meet is the concerns of… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The clearer and deeper the public opinion of the world, in the first instance the opinion of the working masses, will understand… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
“Downward social mobility. We hear a lot about the great social mobility in America with the focus usually on the comparative ease… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
So confident am I that the number of deaths from violent storms will continue to decline that I challenge Mr. McKibben -… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
The mind in creation is as a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I don't want to be elected president to sit around and see gridlock just become so dominant that people literally decline in… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together. — J. B. Bury Copy Share Image
It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline. — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.' — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
We will either bring on another American century, or we are doomed to witness America's decline. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
I decline to go fox hunting (nor did she want her sons William and Harry to be involved in hunting). — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline. — Du Fu Copy Share Image
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