3 December 2020 Will Durant To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
3 December 2020 Will Durant There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.
3 December 2020 Will Durant Sixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
3 December 2020 Will Durant Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Will Durant Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
3 December 2020 Will Durant We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
3 December 2020 Will Durant The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
3 December 2020 Will Durant Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.
3 December 2020 Will Durant One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
3 December 2020 Will Durant Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
3 December 2020 Will Durant Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Will Durant We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
