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Letter "W" » Will Durant Quotes
«The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Politics
| Keywords:
political machine, triumphs
«When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near»
«As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.»
«Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
six times, too little, twenty-four, twenty-four hours
«Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| About:
Bankers and banks,
History,
Mankind,
Money,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
hoard, inflationary
«Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law»
«A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist»
«Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle»
«Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions»
«From the point of view of morals, life seems to he divided into two periods; in the first we indulge, in the second we preach»
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