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"I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church."

"The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences."

"You know how the church has been hit so hard by the sexual misconduct by clergy, and what's that's done to Catholics, especially here in Boston but elsewhere as well."

"Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it."

"The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool."

"Does the church offer answers for the complexions of 21st century problems?"

"That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved."
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"Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time."

"A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless."

"In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?"

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."

"I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French."

"I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
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