Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for 'National Geographic,' and they gave us a lot of film.
I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War.
If the military might of Germany and Japan are ultimately to be crushed, the United Nations, one and all, must definitely and urgently strive toward a total war effort.
Civilization is a product of the cerebral cortex.
Deep-seated are the wounds of civil brawls.
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
You can't leave civilization behind entirely.
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Civilization can never be sustainable.
Civility is not simply about manners.
As civilization advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
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