<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568048" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Our Epitaph</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here lies the greatest civilization ever developed upon this earth<br>The finest and best hope that all men could be free, self-governing<br>and prosperous, and that the burden of excessive toll, disease<br>and poverty could be lifted from the backs of men<br>This great civilization died not as a result of external agression, <br>but from internal crumbling of the character of its people<br>The people had become so luxury-loving and soft that they would<br>not exert themselves in their own defense<br>A malignant disease that might be described as a maudlin sympahty<br>for ones enemies seemed to paralyze their will<br>Here lies the nation that sacrificed its life in an effort to gain<br>the goodwill and friendship of its enemies<br>Here lies the people who abandoned their priceless heritage of<br>patriotism, religious faith and truth for the socialism that<br>sapped their manhood<br>Here lies the nation that abandoned the faith of its fathers who <br>had made it great; for the cynical skepticism and atheism of<br>its enemies<br>Here lies the nation that died from loss of faith in God, loss of<br>pride and confidence in itself, and a loss of the will to defend<br>itself against both its internal and external enemies<br>Here lies the United States</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Leroy+Maxwell">John Leroy Maxwell</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=568048" data-title="Our Epitaph de John Leroy Maxwell" data-description="Here lies the greatest civilization ever developed upon this earth The finest and best hope that all men could be free, self-governing and prosperous, and that the burden of excessive toll, disease and poverty could be lifted from the backs of men..."></div> </div> </div>

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