Bad laws Quote by Melvin J. Ballard

As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid…

— Frederick Russell Burnham

No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.

— Bertrand Russell

Very few established institutions, governments and constitutions ...are ever destroyed by their enemies until they have been corrupted and weakened by their friends.

— Walter Lippmann

No nation can be destroyed while it possesses a good home life.

— J. G. Holland

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there…

— John Adams

Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

— Wole Soyinka

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

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for…

— Charles Dudley Warner

If you look at history you'll find that no state has been so plagued by its rulers as when power has fallen into the…

— Desiderius Erasmus

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

— Benjamin Franklin

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

— Charles Dudley Warner

History shows that nations are more fragile than their citizens think. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time.

— Richard Lamm