Aggressive Quote by Robert E. Lee

The whole track of history is marked with the ruin of empires which having been founded in injustice, or perpetuated by wrong, were ultimately…

— William Mackergo Taylor

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

— Gad Saad

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

— Jonathan Swift

The thing that's really important to understand is, the last thing an empire traditionally does is drive itself into bankruptcy. You've seen that with…

— Juan Enriquez

“… I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people … are the safeguard to…

— Anonymous

All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

— Ralph Nader

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their…

— Benjamin Franklin

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its…

— Frank Chodorov

The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.

— Terence McKenna

The State thrives on war - unless, of course, it is defeated and crushed - expands on it, glories in it.

— Murray Rothbard

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power,…

— George Schaller

The precedent is that civilizations collapse, and everything's stacked up for this one to go, and it's a mess when it happens.

— Gail Bradbrook