As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
WILL DURANTEducation is the transmission of civilization.
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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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