"Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark"

"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"

"The family is the nucleus of civilization"

"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"

"If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism"

"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts"

"All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution"

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

"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"