Government Collapse Quotes

There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

The principle [secession] itself is one of disintegration, and upon which no government can possibly endure

At regular intervals in Chinese history it suffers complete collapse and the central government disintegrates.

I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left . . .

There is an apocalyptic view to this that is actually kind of appealing, which is the only way to kill big government is to let it kill itself. It's suicide by gluttony. Right now, the government is approaching Fat Elvis during those years in the '70s right before he croaked on the toilet seat. Basically ObamaCare is a huge tray of bacon and banana sandwiches. And it could happen in our lifetimes.

States with shallow domestic legitimacy tend to fail when they lose foreign support.

The Sunnis no longer recognize the centralized government as a legitimate power. The Shia militia that is moving around is calling out war crimes that are anti-Sunni. So, the Sunnis are in a tough spot. Do they move to an ISIS, which is a radical Islamic terrorist organization? Or do they defend themselves? Or do they give up?

Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.

There were three causes that accounted for the proclamation of martial law in Poland. First it was the progressing economic ruin of the country. Second, it was the decomposition of the functioning of the state. And third, a threat of a civil war.

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.

Simply eight young men … standing amidst the ruins of one administration with the foundation of another not yet laid …. No police were functioning through the country, no system of justice was operating, the wheels of the administration hung idle, battered out of recognition by the clash of rival jurisdictions.

Governments usually end not with a bang but with a whimper, as the Conservatives learned in the 1990s. Support and authority erodes over time until there is a final collapse of support and pivotal electoral shift.

Waiting for the implosion [of the government of Romano Prodi] is risking to turn into Waiting for Godot.

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Czechoslovakia has ceased to exist.

Governments last as long as the undertaxed can defend them against the overtaxed.

Ukraine is going through a difficult time. There is nothing extraordinary of the resignation of the Ukrainian government ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections

Greece is in the grip of politicians who are amazing unwilling to serve anyone but themselves … Greece is importantly strategically, so the United States is supplying funds to the Greek government, in order to prevent its collapse tomorrow.

Assad must go. He's lost the legitimacy to govern.

It now really looks as if the Government is about to fall into our hands.

We saw Vietnam disintegrating before our eyes—at least the structure of the state disintegrating.