From Bill Federer's American Minute, one of the last deserving laureates:
"Man has forgotten God, that is why this has happened," was [Aleksandr] Solzhenitsyn's response when questioned about the decline of modern culture. A Russian author, Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for eight years by Joseph Stalin. He wrote The Gulag Archipelago for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970, but the Communist government would not allowed him to leave the country to accept it. Finally, under international pressure, the Soviet Union expelled him on February 13, 1974. While in Washington, D.C., in 1975, Alexander Solzhenitsyn warned:I...call upon America to be more careful...because they are trying to weaken you...to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat — one that has never been seen before in the history of the world.
It is no accident that the United States of America is a metaphor of the better world for which all good men long: States outwardly unlike one another, governed by people outwardly unlike one another; who, sharing a common purpose in liberty, live in an enduring and peaceful union.