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" As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. "
Dies
Complete
Liberty
" A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. "
Moralist
Cannot
Afford
" Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. "
Money
History
Man
" Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. "
Chaos
Civilization
Liberty
" Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. "
Change
Civilization
Without
" Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. "
Order
Activity
Civilization
" Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "
Discovery
Education
Ignorance
" Education is the transmission of civilization. "
Education
Civilization
Transmission
" Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. "
Excess
Government
Principle
" Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. "
Art
Philosophy
Science
" Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. "
Virtue
Just
Hatred
" History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. "
Guessing
Rest
Prejudice
" I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. "
I Am
Am
Income
" 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. "
Because
Own
Only
" 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. "
Great
Old Age
Stress
" Inquiry is fatal to certainty. "
Fatal
Inquiry
Certainty
" 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. "
People
Time
You
" Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. "
Knowledge
Soul
Pilot
" Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. "
Recognized
He
Man
" Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. "
Moral
Adjust
Themselves
" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "
History
Too Much
Years
" Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. "
Never
Make
Us
" One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. "
Clever
Nothing
Good
" Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. "
Mirage
Knowledge
Ignorance
" Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. "
Science
Wisdom
Philosophy
" Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "
Education
Discovery
Ignorance
" The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages. "
Man
Mind
Will
" The family is the nucleus of civilization. "
Civilization
Family
" The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. "
Old Man
Wife
Man
" The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. "
World
Day
Life
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