The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.

Either you think or else others have to think for you and take power from you pervert and discipline your natural tastes civilize and sterilize you.

Justice sir is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

The limitation upon this mode of promoting peace lies in the fact that it consists in an appeal to the civilized side of man while war is the product of forces proceeding from man's original savage nature.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

A civilized nation can have no enemies and one cannot draw a line across a map a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side and good friends live on the other.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Money not morality is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.