We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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