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The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I’m not afraid of too many things, and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.
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Attitude Father Kind
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
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Change Prayer Wisdom
The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control.
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Real Running Sacrifice
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life’s ethical problems.
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Men Problem Way
That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.
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Catholic Country Men Misconception
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
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Courage Steel Survival
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
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Humans Intention Sin
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
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Grace Men Serenity
That’s much more dangerous than when people don’t believe anything; they may be confused, they may not have a sense of the meaning of life, but they’re not dangerous.
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Dangerous Life Meaning More Much
It’s always wise to seek the truth in our opponents’ error, and the error in our own truth.
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Errors Opponents Wise
You can’t say that religion or irreligion will give us a particular answer to the nuclear dilemma.
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Answers Giving Nuclear
Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.
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Asure Community Justice Love Prelivege
There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.
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Growth Important Real
The development of a managerial class in Russia, combing economic with political power, is an historic refutation of the Marxist theory.
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Comb Marxist Theory
There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion.
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Cures Pride Religion
The fanatic is dangerous.
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Dangerous Fanatics Life People

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