Bad Start

"What a disappointment the twentieth century has been.  How terrible and melancholy is the long series of disastrous events, which have darkened its first twenty years.  We have seen in every country a dissolution, a weakening of bonds, a challenge to these principles, a decay of faith, an abridgement of hope, on which the structure and ultimate existence of civilized society depends."

 Winston Churchill, November 11, 1922