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" There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. "

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" Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. "

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" Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard. "

" Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. "

" To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. "

" Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art. "

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" Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. "

" Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. "

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" Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. "

" 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 political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. "

" The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. "

" Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. "

" As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. "

" 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. "

" Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. "

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" 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. "