Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1237 |
| AUTHOR: | Morris Sheppard (1875–1941) |
| QUOTATION: | A nation that can not preserve itself ought to die, and it will die—die in the grasp of the evils it is too feeble to overthrow. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Senator |
| SUBJECTS: | Nation |