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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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Will Durant
Age: 96 †
Born: 1885
Born: November 5
Died: 1981
Died: November 7
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
North Adams
Massachusetts
William James Will Durant
William James Durant
Complete
Soon
Liberty
Dies
Anarchy

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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
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Fundamentalism is the triumph of Paul over Christ.
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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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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.
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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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Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.
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Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty certainty is murderous.
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Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
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If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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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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It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
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