Quotes of William J. Durant - somelinesforyou

“ Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles. ”

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

“ Nothing is new except arrangement. ”

- William J. Durant

“ There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles. ”

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

“ Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old. ”

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

“ Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues… ”

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

“ What better way is there to make men love one another than to make men understand one another? True charity comes only with clarity — just as "mercy" is but justice that understands. Surely the root of all evil is the inability to see clearly that which is. ”

- William J. Durant

“ History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. ”

- William J. Durant

“ No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. ”

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

“ Inquiry is fatal to certainty. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principles. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Nothing is new except arrangement. ”

- William J. Durant

“ 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. ”

- William J. Durant

“ When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. ”

- William J. Durant

“ History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances. ”

- William J. Durant

“ There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. ”

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

“ What better way is there to make men love one another than to make men understand one another? True charity comes only with clarity — just as "mercy" is but justice that understands. Surely the root of all evil is the inability to see clearly that which is. ”

- William J. Durant

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

- William J. Durant

“ There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. ”

- William J. Durant

“ No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. ”

- William J. Durant

“ Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues… ”

- William J. Durant
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