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 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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