Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANTCivilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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