Chains Quote by William Henry Harrison

The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.

— Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm

Old men make wars that young men may die.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds…

— Eugene O'Neill

People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

— Woodrow Wilson

The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them…

— Benito Mussolini

When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

— Anonymous

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death…

— Gertrude Stein

Age: that period of life in which we compound for the vices that we still cherish by reviling those that we no longer have…

— Ambrose Bierce

The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals.

— Ralph Nader

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the…

— Eloise Lownsbery

A long war almost always places nations in this sad alternative: that their defeat delivers them to destruction and their triumph to despotism.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“We do not want to destroy unnecessarily what men spent so much time and care and skill in making... for these examples of craftsmanship…

— Ronald Balfour British Monuments Man