There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
WILL DURANTMost of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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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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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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