Civilization Quote by Abraham Flexner

Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.

— Abraham Flexner

“A developed nation is also an expensive nation.”

— Amit Kalantri

We've suffered a war, and one thing we know: Whenever our nation's faced war, whether it was in the 1980s when we were winning…

— Ken Mehlman

“Why else do you think we are permanently at war in various regions all over the world? And why is it the citizens of…

— James Morcan

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us…

— Byron Dorgan

“A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.”

— Indira Gandhi

With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind…

— Arthur Henderson

“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the…

— D.R. Bell

“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the grandchildren of…

— Moss Cass

“The true cost of war can't be measured in dollars, infrastructure, or body counts. It is tomorrows, wrung out of hope by yesterdays that…

— Ellen Hopkins

“A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We”

— Larry Niven