Pierre Stephen Robert Payne Quote

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.


Ibn Khaldun and Machiavelli, p. 147 - The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)


It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.