A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTA statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTThe family is the nucleus of civilization.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTThe love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
WILL DURANTOur knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
WILL DURANTSixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANTKnowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTIt 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.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTThe trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTWoe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
WILL DURANTMan became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
WILL DURANT