The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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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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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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 vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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