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.
WILL DURANTWe Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, 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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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