Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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 Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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