We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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