What did John Matthews mean by: We may think of ourselves as civilized, but there is always a wildness within. - John Matthews Copy
Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized! - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized. - John Stuart Mill Philosopher and economist · United Kingdom
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poet · England
