 Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos. |
| The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. |
| There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war. |
| 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. |
| Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years. |
| Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. |
| As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy. |
| Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. |
| The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. |
| Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. |
| Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity. |
| Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. |
| There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure. |
| Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. |
| Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. |
| When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near. |
| The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife. |
| History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice. |
| 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. Topics: Age |
| Education is the transmission of civilization. |
