Civilization Quote by Gutzon Borglum

Washington and Lincoln mean as much to us as any two men could mean to a civilization, a people, and age, but I told…

— Gutzon Borglum

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by…

— Francis Crick

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think…

— Bertrand Russell

“Within the shadows of honor, courage often walks in silence. -Engraved on the monument Clay built”

— Lorraine Heath

When you come to Montgomery, you see fifty-nine monuments and memorials, all about the Civil War, all about Confederate leaders and generals. We have…

— Bryan Stevenson

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all…

— Chaske Spencer

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less,…

— Samuel Johnson

When we see the many grave-stones which have fallen in, which have been defaced by the footsteps of the congregation, which lie buried under…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of course, an…

— Gae Aulenti

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington…

— Morris Sheppard

The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be…

— George Washington