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

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

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

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

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

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

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

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

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.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

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.

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

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