I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now.