Quote by Will Durant
Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic pr

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

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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. – Will Durant

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Discipline
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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. – Will Durant

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Age
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries. – John Adams

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Im not really conservative. Im conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but dont any more. – Clint Eastwood

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Government

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues – Tories – in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. Im not a believer in laissez-faire. – Vince Cable

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You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing. – Dale Carnegie

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The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance. – Ramana Maharshi

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