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" We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. "

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" Education is the transmission of civilization. "

" 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. "

" Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

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

" 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. "

" Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. "

" Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. "

" Inquiry is fatal to certainty. "

" One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. "

" Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. "

" Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. "

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

" Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. "

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

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

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

" I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. "

" Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. "

" Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. "

" Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent. "

" Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime. "

" A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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