Age Quote by James Monroe

Despotism has forever had a powerful hold upon the world. Autocratic government, not self-government, has been the prevailing state of mankind. The record of…

— Calvin Coolidge

Every few hundred years in Western history there occurs a sharp transformation. Within a few short decades, society - its worldview, its basic values,…

— Peter Drucker

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

— Charles de Secondat

Our institutions, if they do not erode entirely, can survive periods of decadence brought on by our material success, eras when the whole notion…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

— Baron de Montesquieu

By the breaking in of enraged merciless armies, flourishing countries have been laid waste, great numbers of people have perished in a short time,…

— John Woolman

Unprincipled governments are inevitably unstable, unsuccessful and short-lived.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well…

— David Hume

When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and…

— Emma Goldman

The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a…

— Lewis Henry Morgan

“Everything human … has its period: nations, like mortal men, advance only to decline; dismembered empire and diminished glory mark a crisis in the constitution;”

— Jeremy Paxman

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

— Henry George