Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·American decline✕clear

Essay · Political literature

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 7.6

Speech · Political speech

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

1838

★ 7.0

TV program · Crime (TV) · Drama (TV) · Crime · Drama

We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy’s pocket.

The Wire · 2003

★ 6.9

Film · Road movie · Drama (film) · Drama

You know, this used to be a helluva good country. I can't understand what's gone wrong with it.

Easy Rider · 1969

★ 3.8

Speech · Political speech

We're too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We're not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline.

First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan · 1981

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system, flush with cash, but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the crime and gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump · 2017

★ 3.7

To me America used to be a place that made steel and cars and had giant department stores. Now basically we produce amateur talent and people that judge amateur talent.

2014

★ 2.0

Autobiography and memoir

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant, was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

The Education of Henry Adams · 1907

★ 1.9

Film · Crime (film) · Drama (film) · Crime · Drama

Well, this country is becoming a haven for criminals so what do you expect? You know, decent hard-working Americans like my dad are getting rubbed out by social parasites.

American History X · 1998

★ 1.9

Speech · Political speech

For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished – but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered – but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.

Inaugural Address of Donald Trump · 2017

★ 1.2