Civility Quote by Fanny Burney

“How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!”

— Thomas Jefferson

Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of…

— Abraham Lincoln

“The world has changed to permit ever more people in all corners of the globe to cooperate to their mutual betterment. The very prospect…

— Jeffrey Tucker

A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief…

— Sinclair Lewis

Some cynical people think that every activity must revolve around the mighty dollar, and that anyone saying otherwise is just attempting to delude the…

— John Carmack

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out…

— Marie Corelli

“We have engrossed to ourselves, in a time when other powerful nations were paralysed by barbarism or internal war, an altogether disproportionate share of…

— Margaret MacMillan

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet…

— Edmund Burke

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

— Louise Erdrich

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in…

— Oscar Wilde

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of…

— Charles A. Reich