Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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 say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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