Will Durant Quotes About Liberty
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Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.
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Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.
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Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
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Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
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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.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
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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.
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
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The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.
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Liberty is a product of order.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.
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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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