We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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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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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
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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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Education is the transmission of civilization.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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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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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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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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