Great Quote by Benjamin Wittes Download Open image “It is possible for great nations to rot from within.” — Benjamin Wittes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great Nations Possible Rot Within
“A nation always begins to rot first in its great cities, is indeed perhaps always rotting there, and is saved only by the antiseptic… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Great nations do not succumb through lost wars, but rather through racial decay and the destruction of their internal order. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
A nation that cannot preserve itself ought to die, and it will die - die in the grasp of the evils it is too… — Morris Sheppard Copy Share Image
nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases;… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nations have lost their old omnipotence; the patriotic tiedoes not hold. Nations are getting obsolete, we go and live where we will. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great. — Kathleen Parker Copy Share Image
History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
One effect of Roe was to mobilize a permanent constituency for criminalizing abortion - a constituency that has driven much of the southern realignment… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
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