We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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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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