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A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
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Unknown, (attributed incorrectly to James Madison)
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
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Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
Civilizations in decline are consistently characterised by a tendency towards standardization and uniformity.
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Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
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Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.
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Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
Underlying the whole scheme of civilization is the confidence men have in each other, confidence in their integrity, confidence in their honesty, confidence in their future.
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Bourke Cockran
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The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.
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Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.
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Max Nordau (1849 - 1923)
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