As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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