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 DURANT
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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