See ours is not the first by George good government to arise on the world stage, there have been several
Rome, Spain, and Greece, and China, and each enjoyed about a hundred and fifty years at its zenith
And that’s just about our time in the new world
And then each decayed away
Not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else’s marching legions
Each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously
You know one of the most cruel paradoxes’ of history is this
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Because each was a good government it bore bountiful fruit and
Rome, Spain, and Greece, and China, and each enjoyed about a hundred and fifty years at its zenith
And that’s just about our time in the new world
And then each decayed away
Not one of them was ever destroyed by anybody else’s marching legions
Each rotted away morally, socially, culturally, economically simultaneously
You know one of the most cruel paradoxes’ of history is this
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Because each was a good government it bore bountiful fruit and