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 DURANTEvery vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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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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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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 living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
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