"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings"

"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots"