| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 47 |
| AUTHOR: | Georges Clemenceau (18411929) |
| QUOTATION: | America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Attributed to GEORGES CLEMENCEAU.Hans Bendix, Merry Christmas, America! The Saturday Review of Literature, December 1, 1945, p. 9. |
| SUBJECTS: | America |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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