Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
WILL DURANTWe are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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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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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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The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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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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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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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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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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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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