Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
WILL DURANTThe political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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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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