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. – Reinhold Niebuhr
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else. – Reinhold Niebuhr
If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God. – Reinhold Niebuhr
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted and pure love without power is destroyed. – Reinhold Niebuhr
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right. – Henry Bessemer (discovered new method of producing steel)