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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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"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."
"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."
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
"The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism."
"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."
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