We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTMoral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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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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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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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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