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.
WILL DURANTIn 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.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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