“We need to be resolute in stating the positive virtues of our Western civilization, which includes Europe as well as the United States.”  - Michael Burleigh, Hoover Digest, Summer, 2006

 

“The message  he seeks to  convey is the  ancient  tradition of humanism, one that  has inspired the civilization of the West...: a rational, non-dogmatic open-minded,  tolerant  approach  to life, valuing knowledge, beauty, truth, and justice.” - Source unknown, 1990