We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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 trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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