https://t.inks.page/wiki/Richard_Nixon Follow any website on Inks inks.page https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon?t=2026-04-05 I think of what happened to Greece and Rome, and you see what is left—only the pillars. What has happened, of course, is that the great civilizations of the past, as they have become wealthy, as they have lost their will to live, to improve, they then have become subject to decadence that eventually destroys the civilization. The United States is now reaching that period.

• Address to senior mid-western media executives in Kansas City, Mo (July 6, 1971)

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