Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
WILL DURANTAs soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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