Decline Quotes

474 Decline quotes by 395 unique authors

Masonry is too great an institution to have been made in a day, much less by a few men, but was a slow evolution through… — Joseph Fort Newton
In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious… — Laurie Garrett
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to… — Scott Turow
The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former… — Stuart Chase
No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has ever been adopted… — Calvin Coolidge
Our nation will prosper or decline in direct proportion to our selection of leaders who are guided by the Holy Spirit. If we fail to… — Ronald Reagan
Are we going to continue to yield personal liberties and community autonomy to the steady inexplicable centralization all political power or restore the Republic to… — Douglas MacArthur
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering… — Robert Neelly Bellah
Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.… — Alexander Hamilton
We need to find three Saudi Arabias just to offset [the] decline. — Matthew Simmons
Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years… — Amory Lovins
This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and shapes, to the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. — Thomas E. Mann
For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent… — Charles M. Vest
We have had actually a decline in government service overall, but the growth is in high-tech areas, specialty areas in the Labor Department and other… — Alexis Herman
...the era of cheap oil and natural gas is coming to a crashing end, with global oil production projected to peak in 2010 and North… — Richard Heinberg
If an economy is to sustain progress, it must satisfy the basic principles of ecology. If it does not, it will decline and eventually collapse.… — Lester R. Brown
We must develop a compelling vision of later life: one that does not assume a trajectory of decline after fifty, but one that recognizes it… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging… — Wendell Berry
Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States — Dennis Prager

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