Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 47 |
| AUTHOR: | Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) |
| 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 |
| SUBJECTS: | America |