A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
WILL DURANTNature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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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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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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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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