"The city is the nerve center of our……" — Josiah Strong
"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center,"
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24 Quotes by Josiah Strong
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be…
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Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United…
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that…
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Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.
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Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more…
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Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
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As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.
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It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon…
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
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Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded…
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There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither…
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The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it…
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