As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTIf 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.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANT