"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

Age, Discovery, Freedom, Liberty

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"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."

W. H. Auden, English Poet

Age, Society, Money, Class

"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Age, Old, Youth

"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Age, Impact, Success, Motivation

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Canadian Sociologist

Age, Technology

"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Age, Service

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret

"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

Age, Old, Years

"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Age, Work, Old, Sorrow

"It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Age, Love, Man, Old

"You should not consider a man's age but his acts."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Age, Man

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

Nature

"In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order."

Age

"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."

People

"The family is the nucleus of civilization."

Family

"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."

Life

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Education

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

Acting

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Certainty

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

Time

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

Freedom