"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
-Will Durant
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"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.“
-Will Durant
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"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
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"Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice."
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"The family is the nucleus of civilization."
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
-Will Durant
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"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."
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"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
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"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
-Tom Robbins
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"Every country has the government it deserves."
-Joseph de Maistre
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"Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy."
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"What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
-Thomas Sowell
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"The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment."
-Franklin D. Roosevelt
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