"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle."
― Will Durant
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Government
More From Will Durant
- "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."
- "To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say."
- "Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard."
More In Government
- "Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent."― Aung San Suu Kyi
- "The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!"― Chinua Achebe
- "For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it’s where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week."― John Sununu