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.
WILL DURANTWe are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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