The World Wisely Prefers Happiness To Wisdom.

Wherever Men Do Things, Other Men Will Arise Who Will Explain To Them How Things Should Be Done.

So I Should Say That Civilizations Begin With Religion And Stoicism: They End With Scepticism And Unbelief, And The Undisciplined Pursuit Of Individual Pleasure. A Civilization Is Born Stoic And Dies Epicurean.

Which Is Now A More Hopeful Statement Than Swift Intended It To Be.

Civilization Begins With Order, Grows With Liberty, And Dies With Chaos.

The Greatest Question Of Our Time Is Not Communism Vs. Individualism, Not Europe Vs. America, Not Even The East Vs. The West; It Is Whether Men Can Bear To Live Without God.