The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
WILL DURANTNothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
More Will Durant Quotes
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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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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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
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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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