More From Will Durant
- "Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions."
- "Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom."
- "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."
More In War
- "It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth – that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda."― Harry Browne
- "The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."― Washington Irving
- "As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis’ future."― Barack Obama