Who said “If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations…”?

“Every new generation...is a fresh invasion of savages.”

“All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.”

“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.”

“One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.”

“People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilization. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilization; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.”

“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.”

“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”

“We can know only one thing about God — that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.”

“At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done”

“The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.”

“I can, therefore I am.”