"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"

"The family is the nucleus of civilization"

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

"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"

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

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

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

"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"