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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
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Anarchist Ask Case For Law Man Many Need Neighbour Own Privately Superfluous Sure Think Unphilosphical
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Guess History Most Prejudice Rest
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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