"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested"

"Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime"

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between"

"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"

"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos"

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization"

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

"I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women"

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"