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Abraham Lincoln1 quote
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. — Abraham Lincoln · 1838Carl Sandburg1 quote
The people will live on.
The learning and blundering people will live on.
They will be tricked and sold and again sold
And go back to the nourishing earth for rootholds. — Carl Sandburg · 1936E.F. Schumacher1 quote
It was not the power of the Spaniards that destroyed the Aztec Empire but the disbelief of the Aztecs in themselves. — E.F. Schumacher · 1962John Maynard Keynes1 quote
Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perishes save by its own hand. — John Maynard Keynes · 1919Lewis (Deliverance)1 quote
Machines are gonna fail and the system's gonna fail...then...then, survival. Who has the ability to survive? That's the game—survive. — Lewis (Deliverance) · 1972Mary Coleridge1 quote
Egypt's might is tumbled down
Down a-down the deeps of thought;
Greece is fallen and Troy town,
Glorious Rome hath lost her crown,
Venice' pride is nought.
But the dreams their children dreamed
Fleeting, unsubstantial, vain
Shadowy as the shadows seemed
Airy nothing, as they deemed,
These remain. — Mary Coleridge · 1908St. Jerome1 quote
The Roman world is falling, yet we hold our heads erect instead of bowing our necks. — St. Jerome · 396T.S. Eliot1 quote
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. — T.S. Eliot · 1925W.B. Yeats1 quote
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold. — W.B. Yeats · 1920Walt Whitman1 quote
America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without. — Walt Whitman · 1871