One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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 Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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