When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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