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When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant
Liberty, Chaos, Dictatorship

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

Will Durant
Order, Civilization, Liberty
"The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers". Book by Will Durant, 1926.

Liberty is a product of order.

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Order, Liberty, Products

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

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Liberty, Dictatorship, License
Will Durant (2014). “The Complete Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage, Life of Greece, Caesar and Christ, Age of Faith, Renaissance, Age of Reason Begins, Age of Louis XIV, Age of Voltaire, Rousseau and Revolution, Age of Napoleon, Reformation”, p.1983, Simon and Schuster

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

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Wisdom, Order, Liberty

Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

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Civilization, Luxury, Liberty
Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

Forced to choose, the poor, like the rich, love money more than political liberty; and the only political freedom capable of enduring is one that is so pruned as to keep the rich from denuding the poor by ability or subtlety and the poor from robbing the rich by violence or votes.

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Government, Political, Liberty
Will Durant (2011). “The Life of Greece: The Story of Civilization”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

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Liberty, Anarchy, Dies
Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1967). “Rousseau and Revolution: A History of Civilization in France, England, and Germany from 1756, and in the Remainder of Europe from 1715 to 1789”

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

Will Durant
Men, Progress, Liberty
Will Durant (2014). “Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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