“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.”
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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
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.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.