When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTTruth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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If 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.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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