We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.
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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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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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Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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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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