One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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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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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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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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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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There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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