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Civilization I

«Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.»
«But I have seen the science I worshipped and the aircraft I loved destroying the civilization I expected them to serve.»
«America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.»
«If today I had a young mind to direct, to start on the journey of life, and I was faced with the duty of choosing between the natural way of my forefathers and that of the... present way of civilization, I would, for its welfare, unhesitatingly set that child's feet in the path of my forefathers. I would raise him to be an Indian!»
«The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons»
«A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization»
«The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.»
«The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.»
«The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself»
«I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.»

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