Governmental Collapse Quotes

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

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

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Here are two ways by which every kind of government is destroyed; either by some accident that happens from without, or some evil that arises within itself. What the first will be is not always easy to foresee: but the latter is certain and determinate

Liberty is not wanting in popular (democratic) states; nay, they have rather too much of it, since it degenerates into licentiousness. Hence it is that they are ever tottering and weak. Intestine commotions, or foreign attacks, often throw them into consternation.

For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

… a menace to our institutions

All political institutions will end sooner or later. The question is when and how.