To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
WILL DURANTThere have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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