The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men” (lecture)

Civilization is the lambs skin in which barbarism masquerades. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. – Daniel Webster, Remarks on Agriculture

What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. – Henry Havelock Ellis