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Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.