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.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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