We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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 form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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