We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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