A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.
Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
Will Durant

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
Will Durant

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
Will Durant

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.
Will Durant

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant

Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
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Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
Will Durant

History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice.
Will Durant

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Will Durant

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.
Will Durant

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.
Will Durant

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Will Durant

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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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
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