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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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

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

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.

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

Communism is the opiate of the people.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

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

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

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

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.

Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

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

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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Communism is the opiate of the people.
The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.
If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.
Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
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 begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.
Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.
Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.
History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world.
Education is the transmission of civilization.
History is always repeating itself, but each time the price goes up.
Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it.
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.