"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Our age knows nothing but reaction, and leaps from one extreme to another.“
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"Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace."
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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
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"Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed."
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"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
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"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
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