“We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.”

“Civilization and profits go hand in hand.”

“If we would have civilization and the exertion indispensable to its success, we must have property; if we have property, we must have its rights; if we have the rights of property, we must take those consequences of the rights of property which are inseparable from the rights themselves.”

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome’s decline lay in her people, her orals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.”

“Civilization depends on morality.”

“The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.”

“If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay.”

“Civilizations decline when they stop believing in themselves; ours has thrived because we have never lost our conviction that our values are worth defending.”

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

“Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by success fully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.” “Now civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them which they fail to meet.”

“Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.”