Civilization Quotes

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

We must have no carelessness in our dealings with public property or the expenditure of public money. Such a condition is characteristic either of an undeveloped people, or of a decadent civilization. America is neither.

The glossy surface of our civilization hides a real intellectual decadence.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards.

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.

Even in the best and most peacefully civilized countries many occasions arise when a woman versed in the knowledge and use of fire arms may find that information and skill of great importance.

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.