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.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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