Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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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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