We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
WILL DURANTWhen liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
More Will Durant Quotes
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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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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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
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There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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