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"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."
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"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."
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"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
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"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."
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"In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad."
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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
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"There is no cure for the pride of a virtuous nation but pure religion."
Religion
"Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it."
Man
"If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God."
Nature
"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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"There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war."
War
"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
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
Democracy
"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."
Family
"Forgiveness is the final form of love."
Forgiveness
"Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems."
Democracy
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