When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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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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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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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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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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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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