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A Brief History of America is in Decline Like The Roman Empire

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2022 There are ominous signs -- politics, culture, national character -- that the U.S. might have embarked on the beginning of its end as a great empire, just as insane as Rome in its decline. --The Recorder, 2 July 2022
2017 America collapsing like Roman Empire --The Citizen, 28 April 2017
2013 It is my firm opinion we are experiencing the decline and fall of the American empire. We are broke; we have no draft; no Army and where has our commander in chief been for the past week? --Wayne Today, 5 September 2013
2007 Avoiding America's decline starts at home Are we Rome? Is America like the Roman Empire -- you know, Declining and Falling, and all that? No less than the comptroller general of the United States, David Walker, answers yes, citing "striking similarities" between America today and Romen then. And while it's tempting -- at a time of falling bridges, faltering currencies and failing foreign wars -- to spot ominous parallels, one huge difference exists, which happily is still in our power to control. --West Hawaii Today, 27 August 2007
1995 But I think I've figured out the existential function of the O.J. show in contemporary society. Could it be that the O.J. trial amounts to the bread and circuses of the Decline and Fall of the American Empire? Does every schoolchild know these days? (Did they in the past?) During the closing days of Roman imperial power, the fading emperors presided over an increasingly corrupt, decadent, wasteful, yet predatory regime. They sought to divert the attention of the Roman people from their rulers' greed and the damage done to productive citizens -- the creeping ruination the rulers wrought -- t...
1987 "The Decline of the American Empire" is not only a dramatic comedy about the sexes. It takes its title from a premise put forth by one of the professors, that the "frenetic desire for individual happiness in our society may well be historically linked to the decline of the American empire that we are beginning to witness." She compares modern-day America to the fall of ancient Rome, and the demise of other once-great civilizations. --The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 January 1987
1973 Graham: America Declining? Evangelist Billy Graham says America is beginning to show signs that historians say ancient Rome began to exhibit during its decline. Graham told an estimated 28,650 listeners at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in St. Paul Friday night: "In many ways, ancient Rome was like America today. "She was a leader in world affairs, but her leadership was threatened because of decadence within." He said that Edward Gibbon in his "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" listed give major reasons for the decline: the rapid increase o...
1972 Mirror of opinion Fall of Roman Empire From Mexico Ledger Why did Rome fall? Famed historian, H.G. Wells, offered an answer. Today there are people who say we are witnessing the fall of the American Empire. And maybe so. --The Daily Capital News, 1 August 1972
1969 Rubin told the students "America like the Roman Empire is collapsing from within." --Tyrone Daily Herald, 15 February 1969
1956 Comparison Made Fall of Roman Empire Likened To U.S. Now UMATILLA -- The Rev. McCoy Gibbs, pastor of the Broadway Methodist Church, Orlando, discussed the reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire in an address to Kiwanians Monday. He compared the reasons to conditions now existing in the U.S. Points brought out were breaking down of the home, higher and higher taxes, quest for excitement, political pressure for armament without considering the destructive elements that might arise among the peoples of the nation, and the lessening of interest in religion. --The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Decem...
1951 Political Moral Corruption Threatens To Destroy U.S. Like Roman Empire, RCs Say WASHINGTON -- The Roman Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops in the United States declared Saturday that "moral corruption" in public like threatens the country with the same decay that befell the Roman empire. The churchmen, in a statement concluding their three-day annual meeting, roundly condemned the principle that "anything goes" in politics, asserting that an official who profits dishonesty from his post is not better than a common thief. They said, too, in calling for a highe...
1948 Like Roman Empire The U.S. now stands, like the Roman Empire in 300 A.D., in imminent danger of disintegration. "Our national divorce rate stands at one divorce for every three marriages, and rises to a one-to-two in cities," he said. "Forty-four per cent of all marriages are childless. Only 24 per cent of all marriages produce more than a single child." --The Daily News, 12 February 1948
1934 Parallel From Rome To the Editor of The State Gibbon in his "Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire" makes in substance the following statements, to wit: First: Shortly after the heydey of Roman prosperity there gathered in and about the streets of the city of Rome a crowd of lazy proleteriat, who demanded free corn as a gift from the Roman empire, whereupon the emperor borrowed millions of dollars and purchased free corn and distributed it among the lazy proletariat. Second: There came a time in the history of the Roman empire when the emperor could not borrow any more... Bread lin...
1922 BISHOP BURGESS SEES COUNTRY GROW DECADENT Like Roman Empire in Second Century, He Says -- Confirmation at St. Luke's Bishop Burgess said he felt like the country is fast becoming like the old broken empire of Rome in the second century. And when that time comes, he said, the Christian people would come to be known in the United States, as in Rome Christ was known, by certain outward and visible signs. --Times Union, 3 April 1922
1917 The most striking characteristic of the later days of the Roman Empire is the blindness of the Plutocrat to the fact that the man who owns no land recognizes no responsibility to the State, and that when the Proletariat loses its sense of responsibility the State is doomed. Will the United States of America fall like the Roman Empire and for the same reason? --Laredo Weekly Times, 30 September 1917
1900 Whether the tariff on Porto Rican goods is one per cent or one hundred per cent the principle is the same. What does the flag mean? For whom was our constitution framed? Shall we make fish of one and fowl of another? Shall we, like the Roman Empire, annex territory and keep the inhabitants as subjects and not as citizens. The word sounds harsh in an American's mouth. We don't believe the people will like it. Rome, it may be remembered, fell. --Knoxville Sentinel, 1 March 1900
1895 Discard Almighty God from your religion, and drive away the schoolmaster from your door, and the United States, like the Roman Empire, is at an end. And as our intelligence far exceeds that of the Roman Empire, so our death would be that much more terrible. --The Peninsula Times Tribune, 12 July 1895
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