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"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."
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"From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization."
"In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions."
"If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts."
"From first to last the civilization of America has been bound up with its physical environment."
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
"The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction."
"The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind."
"Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages."
"A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed."
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"Look at the United States today. We have made mistakes in the past. We have had shortcomings. We shall make mistakes in the future and fall short of our own best hopes."
"Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America."
"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."
"If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description."
"I have loved but one flag and I can not share that devotion and give affection to the mongrel banner invented for the League of Nations."
"The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession."
"Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind."
"True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion."
"It sets its face rightfully against the doctrines of the Anarchist and the Communist, who seek to solve the social problems not by patient endeavor, but by brutal destruction."
"The time given to athletic contests and the injuries incurred on the playing field are part of the price which the English-speaking race has paid for being world conquerors."
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