I searched for it when I realized something this morning.

Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote:
“The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.”

I thought one could argue that John Steinbeck says the same thing about churches and brothels. It would have been an interesting argument, but when I re-visited the quote I found he said, “The church and the whorehouse *arrived* in the Far West…”