The West has given the world the symphony, and the novel.

By working and living in New York, you are breathing Western civilization, continuously reminded of its benefits and its values.

The West has given us the liberal miracle of individual rights, individual responsibility, merit, and human satisfaction.

A culture that gave the world the spiritual creations of the Classical Music of Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, the paintings of Michelangelo, and Raphael, Da Vinci and Rembrandt, does not need lessons from societies whose idea of spirituality is a heaven peopled with female virgins for the use of men, whose idea of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization.

Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless private charity; it is a society that broke, on behalf of merit, the seemingly eternal chains of station by birth.