"Every expansion of civilization makes for peace...." - Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

“It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done better.”

“Don't limit your challenges - challenge your limits.Don't spread patriotism too thin.”

“It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.”

“In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility.”

“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.”

“At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything.”

“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages,--it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.”

“Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.”