The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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