Will Durant Liberty Quotations

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

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law.

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

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

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

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.

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

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Liberty is a product of order.