Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
WILL DURANTEvery form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
More Will Durant Quotes
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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