A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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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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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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