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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

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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
Economy
Wisdom
Politics
Destroys
Order
Liberalism
Destroy
Hunger
Destruction
Liberty

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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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The world wisely prefers happiness to wisdom.
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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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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 concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and laws.
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Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
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Time sanctifies everything even the most arrant theft in the hands of the robber's grandchildren becomes sacred and inviolable property.
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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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I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic process
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