When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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