Josiah Strong Quotes & Sayings

“If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'”

“The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.”

“Not only does the proportion of the poor increase with the growth of the city, but their condition becomes more wretched.”

“There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.”

“In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.”

“It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain.”

“The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.”

“The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center.”

“Heretofore there has always been in the history of the world a comparatively unoccupied land westward, into which the crowded countries of the East have poured their surplus populations.”

“As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed.”