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Liberty is a product of order.

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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
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From barbarism to civilization requires a century from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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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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Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.
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Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle.
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Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.
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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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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.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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[H]istory assures us that civilizations decay quite leisurely.
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Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
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