We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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