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

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Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative...

Does history support a belief in God? If by God we mean not the creative...

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an...

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Inquiry is fatal to certainty

Inquiry is fatal to certainty

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

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

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

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.

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

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to...

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and...

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and...

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

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

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the...

The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education.......

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own...

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own...