We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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