When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANTTo say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
More Will Durant Quotes
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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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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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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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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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