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Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.

Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

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.

Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.

There have been only 268 of the past 3,421 years free of war.