Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTInquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTCivilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
WILL DURANTTired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTIt 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 DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTBankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANT