No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Peace is an unstable equilibrium, which can be preserved only by acknowledged supremacy or equal power.

Every state begins in compulsion; but the habits of obedience become the content of conscience, and soon every citizen thrills with loyalty to the flag. The citizen is right; for however the state begins, it soon becomes an indispensable prop to order.