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"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
"A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb."
"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
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"Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice."
"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."
"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."
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
"The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it."
"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."
"Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it."
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