Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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