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 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  George Clemenceau

 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
  George Clemenceau

 People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.

 America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  Oscar Wilde

 America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.
  John O'Hara

 The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
  Sir David Hare

 Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

 Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
  Edmond de Goncourt

 The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
  Pearl S. Buck

 Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage-the union between one man and one woman-has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

 We all know Katrina is one of the greatest human tragedies in the nation's history - but it could also be the greatest cultural catastrophe America has ever experienced. Rebuilding is essential, but it must acknowledge the historic character of one of the nation's most distinctive regions.

 At a time when American soldiers around the world risk their lives to protect America from the many threats we face, it is more important than ever that our young people understand the history and values that have guided America through its difficult times in the past and ensured this nation's continuing prosperity.

 In a healthy nation there is a kind of dramatic balance between the will of the people and the government, which prevents its degeneration into tyranny.
  Albert Einstein

 You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.
  John Buchan

 One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
  Ezra Pound


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