The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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