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“Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed.”

Reinhold Niebuhr · Power

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Reinhold Niebuhr

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Faith

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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.

Peace

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If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

Courage

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I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the sentimentalism of the one matched with the cynicism of the other. That ought to bring them pretty close to the truth.

Truth